Natasha Pulley Explained

Natasha Pulley
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Birth Name:Natasha Katherine Pulley[1]
Birth Date:4 December 1988
Birth Place:Cambridge, England
Occupation:Author
Notableworks:The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (2015)
Awards:2016 Betty Trask Award

Natasha Katherine Pulley (born 4 December 1988) is a British author. She is best known for her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which won a Betty Trask Award.

Pulley has also been an associate lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University, a visiting lecturer at City, University of London, and a tutor in the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education (ICE).[2]

Early life and education

Pulley was born in Cambridge[3] and educated at Soham Village College. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English from New College, Oxford and then a Master of Arts (MA) in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia in 2012.[4] [5] [6] She also earned a scholarship to study abroad in Tokyo for a year.[3]

Works

Her debut novel, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, was published in 2015[7] and was set in Victorian London.[8] It won a 2016 Betty Trask Award.[9] Her second novel, The Bedlam Stacks, was published in 2017,[10] and her third, The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, was released in the UK in 2019.[11] All three are set in the same fictional universe.[12]

Pulley's fourth book, an alternative history titled The Kingdoms, was released in May 2021,[13] followed by her fifth book, The Half Life of Valery K, in June 2022[14] and her sixth, The Mars House, on 19 March 2024.[15]

Awards

Ref: [16] [17] [18]

YearTitleAwardCategoryResult
2015The Watchmaker of Filigree StreetWaverton Good Read Award—
2016Authors' Club First Novel Award—
Betty Trask Prize and AwardsBetty Trask Award
Crawford Award—
Gaylactic Spectrum AwardNovel
Locus AwardFirst Novel
2017The Bedlam StacksBooks Are My Bag Readers' AwardsFiction
2018Encore Award—
Walter Scott Prize—
2019International Dublin Literary Award—
2020The Lost Future of PepperharrowKitschiesRed Tentacle (Novel)
2021The KingdomsSidewise AwardLong Form
2022HWA Crown AwardsGold
2024The Mars HouseClimate Fiction Prize—

Bibliography

Watchmaker

Other novels

Collections

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Natasha Katherine Pulley. Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). 31 August 2024.
  2. Web site: Historia interviews: 2022 HWA Gold Crown Award shortlist: Natasha Pulley. Historia. Frances. Owen. 13 March 2023. 31 August 2024.
  3. Web site: Fiction skills: Capturing time and place with Natasha Pulley. The Guardian. 17 November 2020. 31 August 2024.
  4. Web site: Natasha holds author's event at Ely and meets up with some familiar faces. Cliss. Sarah. 2016-09-02.
  5. Web site: Natasha Pulley Author Page. Foyles. Foyles. 2016-09-02.
  6. Web site: Natasha Pulley. Bloomsbury.
  7. News: 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street,' by Natasha Pulley. Wecker. Helene. 2015-07-31. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-09-02.
  8. Web site: 'Watchmaker of Filigree Street' is a magical tale of Victorian London. Times. Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times. 10 July 2015 . 2016-09-02.
  9. Web site: Prizes - The Society of Authors. www.societyofauthors.org. 6 July 2017.
  10. Web site: Wheeler. Sara. A 19th-Century Smuggler in the Peruvian Andes. The New York Times. 29 December 2017. 15 September 2017.
  11. Book: Pulley, Natasha. The Lost Future of Pepperharrow. Bloomsbury. 2019. 978-1-63557-330-5. London. 1042353069.
  12. Web site: Codega. Linda H.. 2020-02-19. Peering Into The Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley. 2021-05-24. Tor.com. en-US.
  13. Web site: 2021-05-08. The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup. 2021-05-24. the Guardian. en.
  14. Web site: Pulley . Natasha . 2022-06-22 . Natasha Pulley on Twitter . 2022-06-28 . . en.
  15. Web site: The Mars House . 2023-12-14 . Gollancz . en.
  16. Web site: sfadb : Natasha Pulley Titles . 2024-06-11 . sfadb.com.
  17. Web site: Natasha Pulley Author LibraryThing . 2024-06-11 . LibraryThing.com . en.
  18. Web site: Award Bibliography: Natasha Pulley . 2024-06-11 . www.isfdb.org.

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