Maddie Mortimer

1996–

English novelist from West London, born in 1996 into a family of writers; her mother was the writer and filmmaker Katie Pearson. She studied English literature at the University of Bristol, worked in marketing and as a screenwriter, and completed a Faber Academy novel course in 2019. Her debut, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (2022), follows Lia, a woman whose cancer narrates part of the story, and draws on the death of Mortimer’s mother in 2010. It won the Desmond Elliott Prize, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Maddie Mortimer’s life

Works

• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (2022)

Prizes

• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies — Betty Trask Prize and Awards 2023: Awards
• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies — The Booker Prize 2022: Longlist