Lamorna Ash
Lamorna Ash | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Oxford University University College London |
| Notable works | Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town |
| Notable awards | The Somerset Maugham Award (2021) |
Lamorna Ash is a British writer and education specialist. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2021.
Biography[edit]
Ash attended St Paul's Girls' School before studying English literature at Oxford University, graduating in 2016. She earned an MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology from University College London.[1] She worked as an intern at The Times Literary Supplement.[1]
After university, Ash went to Newlyn, a fishing town in Cornwall for one month to learn about their fishing community. She stayed with a local couple, Lofty and Denise, a fishmonger and a ship's chandler.[2][3] She spent a week on the trawler Filadelfia, working with a crew of local fishermen.[4]
Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear, written about Ash's time in Newlyn, was published by Bloomsbury in April 2020.[5][6] In 2021, Ash won the Somerset Maugham Award for her memoir.[7] The book was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'.[8][9] She is currently a freelance writer for the TLS and an English specialist for an education charity in Hackney.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "OPPIDAN EDUCATION — Our Mentor, Lamorna". Oppidan Education. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Bloomsbury buys Cornish fishing village book after TLS article | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ "Extract: Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish fishing town - Lamorna Ash". TLS. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ "Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town - Lamorna Ash; | Foyles Bookstore". Foyles. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (29 December 2019). "Nonfiction to look out for in 2020". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ^ Briefly reviewed in the January 4&11, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.75.
- ^ "Somerset Maugham Awards". Society of Authors. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, by Lamorna Ash". BBC. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
- ^ Reynolds, Gillian. "Radio picks of the week — March 22". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
External links[edit]
- Lamorna Ash Podcast interview, Russ Roberts of EconTalk
