Nell Zink

Nell Zink is the author of seven acclaimed novels including her debut, The Wallcreeper, described by the Sunday Times as a ‘a slim, strange masterpiece’, the National Book Award-longlisted Mislaid, a New York Times Book of the Year, Doxology, Avalon, and, most recently, Sister Europe. She has been praised by Jonathan Franzen as ‘a writer of extraordinary talent and range’. She had previously worked as a secretary, with stints in masonry, technical writing and translating. Her other writing has appeared in n+1, Granta and Harper’s Magazine. She lives in Berlin. 

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