Olivia Sudjic

Sudjic was born in London, England. She was educated at the City of London School for Girls and then studied English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where she won the E.G. Harwood Prize for English. == Selected texts ==

Sympathy (2017) Sympathy revolves around a twenty-something woman visiting New York who becomes obsessed with an older woman via the social media app Instagram. The book is recognized for addressing generational differences: "A child of the age of algorithms, she notices everything but knows the value and significance of nothing." As for the structure, it resembles the disjointed experience of surfing the internet, thereby reinforcing the story's focus on technology. The article goes on to say: "Rarely do novels so ostentatiously of the moment succeed so well at gesturing to the universal." The Financial Times, The Spectator, The Telegraph, Elle, Esquire, Star Tribune, The Times, The New Yorker and Vice, among others. Sudjic began writing Sympathy in 2014 while staying with her grandmother in Manhattan. In the beginning, Sudjic intended to write an historical novel, but changed her mind and set the story in contemporary times. Asylum Road (2021) Sudjic's third novel Asylum Road was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury. The narrator Anya is from Sarajevo, and survived the siege of that city. The novel is about her disintegration. The title refers to the street in Peckham on which an asylum was located. Asylum Road was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's 2022 Encore Award and the Society of Authors' 2022 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. ==Bibliography==

In 2023, Sudjic was named on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list, compiled every 10 years since 1983, identifying the 20 most significant British novelists aged under 40. ==References==