Zoe Pilger's first novel, Eat My Heart Out, will be republished as a Serpent's Tail modern classic in July 2020.

 

Zoe Pilger was born in 1984 in London. She is writing a quartet of novels, which is supported by The Society of Authors and Arts Council England

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Influences, Frieze. 2017. 

 

Eat My Heart Out was first published by Serpent's Tail in 2014. It won a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award at the 2015 Society of Authors in the UK. It was shortlisted for a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the US. 

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Zoe Pilger was previously the art critic for The Independent. She won the 2011 Frieze Writers Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for arts journalism. She has written widely on feminism and art. 

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August 2019

Paula Rego at Milton Keynes Gallery,

Frieze

https://frieze.com/article/paula-rego-review-cleaving-open-shadows-family-and-society 

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Oct 2019

Betty Parsons at Alison Jacques Gallery, 

Frieze

https://frieze.com/article/betty-parsons-painter

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Zoe Pilger has a BA in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University, an MA in Comparative Literary Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is working on a PhD monograph of the artist Sophie Calle at Goldsmiths.

 

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