Zoe Pilger

1984–

Zoe Pilger is an English novelist and art critic, the daughter of the journalists John Pilger and Yvonne Roberts. She studied social and political science at Cambridge and took an MA in comparative literature at Goldsmiths, where she later researched a PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of women artists. She was art critic of The Independent from 2012 to 2016. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out (2014), a satire of modern romance, received a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2015. She lives in London.

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