ABOUT THE
JUDGES

EDMUND GORDON
Edmund Gordon is the author of The Invention of Angela Carter, which received the Somerset Maugham Award and the Biographers’ Club/Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. He is Reader in Creative and Critical Writing at King’s College London and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
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