Tom Crewe

Tom Crewe (born 1989) is an English novelist, best known for his 2023 debut novel, The New Life. In April 2023, Granta included Crewe on their "Best of Young British Novelists" list, an honour presented every ten years "to the twenty most significant British novelists under forty." The Observer included Crewe in their list of the ten best new novelists of 2023.

Biography Crewe was born in 1989 in Middlesbrough. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in nineteenth-century British history from the University of Cambridge. He has served as an editor at the London Review of Books since 2015. He has contributed to the London Review of Books, The Telegraph, and other major outlets.

His debut novel, The New Life, was published January 2023 by Chatto & Windus and Scribner. It is also set to be published in French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. and was shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize.

Awards Year Work Award Category Result Ref 2023 The New Life HWA Crown Awards Debut Nero Book Awards Debut Fiction Orwell Prize Political Fiction Polari Prize First Book South Bank Sky Arts Awards Literature Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award — 2024 Betty Trask Prize and Awards Betty Trask Prize Walter Scott Prize —

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