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Zoe Pilger was born in 1984 in London. She is writing a trilogy of novels about feminism and art, which is supported by The Society of Authors and Arts Council England. She is represented by The Wylie Agency.

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Zoe Pilger's first novel, Eat My Heart Out, was first published by Serpent's Tail in 2014. It won a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award in the UK. It was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the US. 

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Eat My Heart Out was republished as a Serpent's Tail Modern Classic in 2020.

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Zoe Pilger was the art critic for The Independent newspaper from 2012 to 2016. She won the 2011 Frieze Writers Prize, and she was shortlisted for the 2015 Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for arts journalism. She has written widely on feminism and art. 

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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 she is working on a PhD monograph of the artist Sophie Calle at Goldsmiths.

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