Stubborn Archivist (2019) Her first novel,
Stubborn Archivist, was published in 2019. It was longlisted for the
Dylan Thomas Prize (2020) and the
Desmond Elliott Prize (2019) Yara was named one of The Observer’s ‘hottest-tipped’ debut novelists of 2019 and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019.
there are more things (2022) Her latest novel
there are more things was published in 2022. It was nominated for the
Goldsmiths Prize and the
Orwell Prize for Fiction, and it was also a
Sunday Times Fiction Book of the Year.
Other works Rodrigues Fowler is currently co-writing a play called
The Conference of the Trees with Majid Adin and Connie Treves, based on the poems by members of the Change The Word poetry collective at Good Chance Theatre.
The Conference of the Trees was selected for the
Writers' Guild of Great Britain's inaugural New Play Commission Scheme. Her next book, a work currently in progress, will be a literary account of the life of
Princess Diana through a formally experimental
Marxist,
feminist, and
anti-imperialist lens. ==Personal life and political views ==