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Amy Sackville
British writer (born 1981)
Amy Sackville FRSL (born 1981[1]) is a British writer whose debut novel The Still Point was the winner of the 2010 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.[2]
Sackville studied English and theatre studies at Leeds University,[1] followed by an MPhil at Oxford's Exeter College[1] before taking a job in the publishing industry.[2] She also studied an MA in creative writing at London's Goldsmiths College.[1]
Her first novel, The Still Point, was published in 2010 and nominated for that year's Orange Prize for Fiction.[2] Her second novel, Orkney, won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2014.[3] Her third novel, Painter to the King, about Diego Velázquez and the court of Philip IV of Spain was published in 2018.[4][5]
In June 2018 Sackville was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.[6]