Tice Cin Explained

Birth Date:21 April 1995
Birth Place:Enfield, London, England

Tice Cin (born April 1995) is a British writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her debut novel Keeping the House (2021) received a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for a British Book Award among other accolades.

Early life

Cin was born to Turkish Cypriot parents and grew up between Enfield and Tottenham. She began her undergraduate studies in English literature at the University of Reading and secured a Certificate of Higher Education before switching to the University of Northampton. She wrote her dissertation on portals and the unconscious mind.[1] She went on to complete a Masters in English: Issues in Modern Literature at University College London (UCL), specialising in fluids and the posthuman body.

Career

In her teens and early twenties, Cin was involved in the North London DJ scene and admired the likes of Gladdy Wax.[1]

Cin got her formal writing start when she was admitted to Barbican Young Poets.[2] [3] She also began creating digital art for Design Yourself.[4] She joined the advisory board of the Poetry Translation Centre (PTC)[2] and worked in various roles for the likes of SAGE Publishing, Tilted Axis Press,[5] and Cottage Fields, and New Muslim Stories.[6] [7]

Having received a 2018 London Writers Award and been mentored via the Arvon Foundation,[8] [9] Cin published her debut novel Keeping the House in 2021 via And Other Stories. Set between 1999 and 2012,[10] [11] the novel follows three generations of women centred around the character Ayla as she comes of age in Tottenham's Turkish Cypriot community. The concept came from Cin's desire to see her part of London in literature, with the novel taking place on Broadwater Farm.[12] Cin incorporated poetry into the narrative and created a DJ mix and playlist to accompany the novel.[13] Keeping the House won a Somerset Maugham Award and a London Writers Award. It was also shortlisted for a British Book Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Jhalak Prize.

In 2024, Cin joined her publisher And Other Stories as a contributing editor.[14]

Bibliography

Novels

Essays and short stories

Accolades

!Year!Award!Category!Title!Result!Ref
2022Dylan Thomas PrizeKeeping the House[18]
British Book AwardsDiscover Book of the Year[19]
Somerset Maugham Award[20]
Desmond Elliott Prize[21] [22]
Jhalak Prize[23]
Gordon Burn Prize[24]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "The thing about Haringey is, you never feel completely alone". Haringey Community Press. 5 September 2022. 8 October 2024.
  2. Web site: Interview with Tice Cin. Poetry Translation Centre. 30 October 2024.
  3. Web site: Tice Cin and Gboyega Odubanjo: Barbican Young Poets 2019-20. Barbican. 30 October 2024.
  4. Web site: Design Yourself. Barbican. 30 October 2024.
  5. Web site: Tice Cin. Tilted Axis Press. 30 October 2024.
  6. Web site: Between the Covers: Tice Cin Interview. Tin House. David. Naimon. 30 October 2024.
  7. Web site: About Us. Cottage Fields. 30 October 2024.
  8. Web site: Tice Cin, Iqbal Hussain, Anne Chen and Jamie Hale talk about being part of the London Writers Awards 2018. Spread the Word. Laura. Kenright. 2 May 2019.
  9. Web site: Tice Cin: Three Women of Cyprus. Edinburgh International Book Festival. Nadine Aisha. Jassat. 7 November 2024.
  10. Keeping the House by Tice Cin review – a cult classic in the making. The Guardian. Michael. Donkor. 2 September 2021. 8 October 2024.
  11. Web site: "Her Smell Spoke Another Language": On Tice Cin's "Keeping the House". Los Angeles Review of Books. Piper. French. 16 December 2021. 8 October 2024.
  12. Web site: Tice Cin is writing the London she lives. Huck. Robert. Kazandjian. 24 May 2022. 8 October 2024.
  13. Web site: "There's a reason why we gather in London" – artist Tice Cin explains her debut novel 'Keeping the House'. SW Londoner. Amal. Abdi. 8 February 2022. 8 October 2024.
  14. Web site: Authors Tice Cin and Irenosen Okojie join And Other Stories as contributing editors. The Bookseller. Heloise. Wood. 24 June 2024. 8 October 2024.
  15. Web site: Loopholes. Granta. Tice. Cin. 7 March 2023. 2 November 2024.
  16. Web site: Cybernetics & Ghosts. House of Thought. 2023. 16 October 2024.
  17. Web site: Articles by Tice Cin. MuckRack. 7 November 2024.
  18. Web site: Namita Gokhale chairs jury of Dylan Thomas Prize. The Asian Age. 3 February 2022. 14 May 2022.
  19. Web site: 2022-03-25 . The British Book Awards 2022 shortlist is in . 2023-05-21 . The Independent. Eva. Waite-Taylor. en.
  20. Web site: 2022-06-01 . Tice Cin's Keeping the House wins a Somerset Maugham Award. 2023-02-10 . Watson Little.
  21. Web site: Cin, Cassidy and Mortimer shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize. The Bookseller. Sian. Bayley. 7 June 2022. 8 June 2022.
  22. Web site: Get to Know... Tice Cin: Keeping the House (And Other Stories) by Tice Cin is longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022. National Centre for Writing. 31 May 2022. 8 June 2022.
  23. Web site: Jhalak Prize 2022 shortlists announced as judges hail 'extraordinary' talent. The Bookseller. Lauren. Brown. 19 April 2022. 28 April 2022.
  24. Web site: Smith, Ypi and Cin longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize. The Bookseller. 29 June 2022. 28 March 2024.

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