In 2003, Cusk was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Ĭusk's 2014 novel, Outline, was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction. Cusk has been a professor of creative writing at Kingston University. She has published two autobiographical accounts of motherhood and divorce: A Life's Work and Aftermath. In responding to the formal problems of the novel representing female experience, she began to work in non-fiction. Its themes of femininity and social satire remained central to her work over the next decade.

She published her first novel, Saving Agnes in 1993 which received the Whitbread First Novel Award. Career Ĭusk has written eleven novels, four works of non-fiction, and adapted Medea for the London theatre Almeida. She studied English at New College, Oxford. She comes from a wealthy Catholic family, and was educated at St Mary's Convent in Cambridge. She moved to her parents' native Britain in 1974, settling in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Rachel Cusk (born 8 February 1967) is a British novelist and writer.Ĭusk was born in Saskatoon to British parents in 1967, the second of four children with an older sister and two younger brothers, and spent much of her early childhood in Los Angeles. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation (2012)

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