Alice Winn

Alice Winn Alice Mary Felicity Winn (born 20 December 1992) is a novelist and screenwriter, who holds both Irish and American citizenship. Her 2023 novel In Memoriam won the 2024 British Book Awards Debut Book of the Year. Quotes Usually, when you read war literature, they’re trying to present what they went through to someone who wasn’t there. as quoted by Elizabeth A. Harris in: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/books/alice-winn-novel-memoriam.html A Debut Novel Creates a World From Pages Taken From the Past (When Alice Winn stumbled on the archives of her British boarding school’s newspaper, she discovered a world, only to see it “destroyed and dismantled” during World War I. She brought it back in her novel, “In Memoriam.”) March 5, 2023 nytimes.com In the UK world war one is a selling point; in the US it's more an obstacle. In the UK we live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one; a lot of people see it as a turning point for the empire and it looms larger in the consciousness. as quoted by Anthony Cummins in: Interview: Alice Winn: 'We live in the fossilised wreckage of world war one' 25 November 2023 The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/25/alice-winn-we-live-in-the-fossilised-wreckage-of-world-war-one-in-memoriam-interview I find it interesting that most of the British literature#First World War British First World War literature was written by officers. The same is not true in France and Germany. I can’t imagine that British privates wrote less — I wonder if they were simply published less? The best piece of writing I read from the perspective of a British private was David Jones (painter) David Jones’ In Parenthesis, but it is abstract and more beautiful than useful, from a research perspective. An Exclusive Q&A with Alice Winn on In Memoriam (Waterstones Novel of the Year 2023) 30 November 2023 waterstones.com https://www.waterstones.com/blog/an-exclusive-qanda-with-alice-winn-on-in-memoriam (interview by Anna Orhanen) Quotes about Alice Winn Oxford alumna Alice Winn, who studied English Literature at St Peter's College, Oxford St Peter’s College, may have published just one novel so far, but it is one hell of a debut. Since its appearance in 2023, In Memoriam has met with widespread acclaim and been lauded with prizes – and with good cause. It’s a genuinely compulsive page-turner, a sweeping historical tragedy and an intimate love story all rolled into one, exactly the kind of book that plays on your mind for a long time afterwards. Following a forbidden love between two soldiers in the First World War, you can imagine the acute sense of heartache that runs throughout. Sophie Harrison, Oxford alumni and their books: Alice Winn 4 June 2025 The Oxford Student (Oxford University's Student Newspaper) https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/06/04/in-memoriam/ External links Category:1992 births Category:Living people Category:Novelists from Ireland Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Screenwriters from the United States Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Women born in the 1990s Category:Women from Ireland