Fiona Mozley
British novellist
Fiona Mozley (born 1988) is an English novelist and medievalist. Her debut contemporary novel Elmet (2017) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received a number of further accolades.
Early life and education
Fiona Mozley was born in 1988 in the London Borough of Hackney, and grew up in York, where she attended Fulford School. After graduating from King's College, Cambridge, Mozley lived in Honor Oak and briefly taught English in Buenos Aires before moving back to York in 2013 for her Master of Arts (MA). As of 2017 , she was in the midst of her PhD thesis at the University of York on the concept of decay in the Late Middle Ages. She also works part-time in a bookshop.
Career
Mozley sees as York's most significant literature its Mystery Plays. These along with local drama groups she views "as having influenced my own writing more significantly than any books I have read." When asked at an earlier interview about writers and works she particularly enjoyed, she mentioned some by Cormac McCarthy and Ursula K. Le Guin, and by Philip Pullman, whom she had loved as a child. Mozley's novel Elmet appeared in the 2018 Irish Leaving Certificate English examination.
Mozley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.
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