Emma Healey
Emma Constance Healey is a British novelist. Her debut novel, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) won the annual Costa Book Award for First Novel.
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Emma Healey
- Name
- Emma Healey
- Birth Name
- Emma Constance Healey
- Born
- 1985
- Birthplace
- London, England
- Occupation
- Writer
- Education
- London College of Communication (BA) University of East Anglia (MA)
- Awards
- Costa–First Novel (2014) Betty Trask Award (2015)
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Fields
- literary activity · prose · bookbinding
- Languages
- English
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Emma Constance Healey is a British novelist. Her debut novel, Elizabeth Is Missing (2014) won the annual Costa Book Award for First Novel.
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Key facts
• Name — Emma Healey • Birth Name — Emma Constance Healey • Born — 1985 • Birthplace — London, England • Occupation — Writer • Education — London College of Communication (BA) University of East Anglia (MA) • Genre — Literary fiction • Notable Works — Elizabeth Is Missing • Awards — Costa–First Novel (2014) Betty Trask Award (2015) • Website — http: emmahealey.co.uk/
Life and career
Life and career
Born in London, Healey completed a foundation year at Central Saint Martins before graduating with a BA in Book Arts and Crafts from the London College of Communication. She graduated from the University of East Anglia with an MA in creative writing (prose fiction) in 2011. Her first novel was adapted for television in 2019, Elizabeth Is Missing.
Works
Works
• 2014: Elizabeth Is Missing • 2018: Whistle in the Dark • 2025: Sweat
Awards
• Year — Title — Award — Category — Result — Ref Reference • 2014 — Elizabeth Is Missing — British Book Award — New Writer • Costa Book Award — First Novel • Waverton Good Read Award — — — Longlisted • 2015 — Authors' Club First Novel Award — — • Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction — — — Longlisted • Betty Trask Prize and Awards — Betty Trask Award • Desmond Elliott Prize — — • Independent Booksellers' Book Prize — Adult • 2016 — International Dublin Literary Award — — — Longlisted
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