Alice Winn

Alice Mary Felicity Winn (born 20 December 1992) is an Irish and American novelist and screenwriter, born in France and educated in England. She won the 2023 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for her novel In Memoriam.

Early life and education Winn was born and raised in Paris, France, the daughter of Irish and American parents. She has dyslexia and did not learn to read until she was nine years old. She graduated with a degree in English literature from St Peter's College, Oxford. She has described having a "tenuous grasp" of her identity.

Personal life Winn lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Awards and honors In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year for In Memoriam. The book was also nominated for the 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year and won the Waterstones Novel of the Year. In October 2024, the German translation won the Young Adult Jury Award of the German Youth Literature Awards at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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