Missouri Williams
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| Born | 1992 |
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| Nationality | English |
| Genre | Literary fiction, Science Fiction |
| Years active | 2021-present |
Missouri Williams is an English novelist, playwright and editor based in Prague. She is the editor of Another Gaze, a feminist film journal, and her writing has appeared in outlets such as The Nation, Baffler and Granta.
Career
Williams wrote and directed the play King Lear with Sheep in 2015, a re-telling of King Lear with sheep as it's primary performers.
That same year, she penned a personal essay in Granta detailing how a series of seizures in her temporal lobe impacted her writing.The cause of this condition is not publicly known. Disability, it's impacts and how it relates to characters worlds has been cited as a key aspect of Williams' work.[1]
Williams' debut novel, The Doloriad, was released in 2022 to mostly positive reviews. A literary fiction, science fiction, horror blend, the novel tells the story of "The Matriarch" ruling her family in the wake of an unknown cataclysm. The novel received the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2023) and her writing drew comparisons to writers such as William Faulkner and classical mythology. In an interview with TriQuarterly, Williams's style was similarly compared to that of László Krasznahorkai. The novel was shortlisted for the First Novelist Award and Vulture Book of the Year. Her second novel is forthcoming. The Vivisectors is described as a satirical campus novel and is based on a previously published short-story in Astra magazine. The novel was subject to an eight-way publisher auction.
Bibliography
- The Doloriad (Farrar, Straus and Giroux in US, Dead Ink Books in UK, 2022)
- The Vivisectors (Fourth Estate (imprint) in UK, forthcoming, Farrar, Straus and Giroux in US, 2025)
See also
- Feminist literature
- Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
References
- ↑ Galant Laura, Justyna (2023-08-22). ""Something Else Already Opening up." The Utopian Impulse and the Novum of Disability in Missouri Williams's The Doloriad". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: 8. doi:10.1080/00111619.2023.2250249. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
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