Tom Crewe

1989–

Tom Crewe, born in Middlesbrough in 1989, is an English novelist and historian. He gained a doctorate in nineteenth-century British history at the University of Cambridge and has been an editor at the London Review of Books since 2015. His first novel, The New Life (2023), won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, and won the Betty Trask Prize in 2024. Granta named him one of its Best of Young British Novelists in 2023.

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