Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn (born 1948) is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. She is the daughter of poet Thomas Blackburn and artist Rosalie de Meric.

Blackburn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2002.

Blackburn's bohemian and troubled upbringing is the subject of her memoir The Three of Us (2008), which won the PEN/Ackerley Prize.

In 1999, she married Dutch artist and sculptor Herman Makkink (1937–2013).

Awards and honours 1996: Orange Prize, shortlist, The Book of Colour 1999: Orange Prize, shortlist, The Leper's Companions 1999: James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Best Novel), nominee, The Leper's Companions 2009: J. R. Ackerley Award, winner, The Three of Us 2011: Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Thin Paths: Journeys in and Around an Italian Mountain Village 2012: Dolman Best Travel Book Award, shortlist, Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village 2019: Wainwright Prize, shortlist, Time Song: Searching for Doggerland