Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Bradley is an English writer and editor. Her debut novel The Ministry of Time received a number of accolades.

Early life and education Kaliane Mong Huxham Bradley was born in Walthamstow, East London, to a British father and a Cambodian Khmer mother. Bradley grew up in a small house with a maternal older half-brother and younger twin sisters. The family moved to Essex for more space when Bradley was 10.

Bradley attended a private secondary school. She graduated from University College London (UCL) with a degree in English literature. She was later promoted to junior editor and commissioning editor, and worked for Granta's imprint Portobello. From 2016 to 2021, she wrote theatre and dance reviews and interviews for Exeunt Magazine, Time Out London, The Stage, and The Guardian.

Bradley won the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition for "Golden Years" and the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize for "Doggerland", the latter awarded by the Royal Society of Literature.

In 2023, Bradley secured a book deal with Sceptre Books, a Hodder & Stoughton imprint, in addition to translations in 13 territories and an adaptation auction between 21 production companies. Her debut novel The Ministry of Time, a time travel romance based around Franklin's lost expedition, was published in May 2024. Bradley had become inspired watching the AMC series The Terror during lockdown. Ahead of the novel's release, the BBC commissioned an adaptation penned by Alice Birch, as announced in February. The Ministry of Time was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Bradley was named one of the 10 best new novelists of 2024 by The Observer.

In April 2024, Bradley stated that she was working on her next novel, which would involve a retelling of Greek mythology with a neo-noir setting.

Personal life Bradley was living in East London with her partner Sam, an academic. They intended to wed in summer 2024.

Published works Novels The Ministry of Time (2024)

Short stories and essays

Edited collections On Anxiety: An Anthology (2018) (co-edited)

Edited translations Swallowing Mercury (2017) by Wioletta Greg, translated by Eliza Marciniak The Collection (2019) by Nina Leger, translated by Laura Francis

Awards Year Title Award Category Result .2024The Ministry of Time Amazon Books Best Book of the Year Fiction Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize — Dymocks Book of the Year — Goodreads Choice Awards Science Fiction Debut Novel Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize — 2025 Audie Award Fiction Australian Book Industry Awards International Book Authors' Club First Novel Award — British Book Awards Debut Fiction Climate Fiction Prize — Jhalak Prize Prose Libby Book Award Science Fiction Women's Prize for Fiction — Hugo AwardsHugo Award for Best Novel