“A significant voice
in British fiction.”
The Observer.
Winner of The Betty Trask Prize. Winner Le Prince Maurice. Longlisted for the Booker Prize. Finalist for the Costa Coffee 2020 Short Story Award.
Louise Dean is a British author, born in Hastings, who read History at Cambridge University. Her novels have been published internationally and featured by the Oprah Book Club. The Wall Street Journal described Louise Dean as one of the world’s top five most under-rated authors. Louise is the founder of the creative writing school The Novelry.
Reviews.
"Dean's observations have a lyrical intensity few can match." The Guardian.
"Dean writes with beautifully controlled clarity. She’s extremely funny, but also humane and moving." The Sunday Times.
"Pitch perfect." The New York Times. "Dean's characters have the rough edges and surprising grace of real people, and her fierce humanism animates very page."
"Dean has a deliciously lucid and seemingly effortless style, as well as the gift of being able to write about each character from the inside, making their motives and actions clear. She has an unerring ear for dialogue." Daily Mail.
"Dean deserves a huge readership." The Times.
"Magnificent." Arena.
"Breathtaking." The Observer.
"Louise Dean's fearless, frank and darkly comic novels have brought a fresh colour and character to English fiction." The Independent.
"Audacious ... remarkable .... with such compassion and perceptive detail - nothing short of astonishing." The Telegraph.
"All her characters are perfectly conceived, their inner dialogues spot on, her observations so sharp they make you wince." Time Out
"Brit Lit star lives up the hype." Ladies Home Journal.
"Fizzes with talent." The Sunday Times.
"Compassionate and amusing." Times Literary Supplement.
"Dean is an audacious arrival in British fiction. She is unafraid to tackle unsexy or unsafe material." The Guardian.
"Dean's great achievement is showing us how ordinary people can go on with their lives in the midst of extraordinary brutality and how a few are able to do so with compassion and hope." People.
“Louise Dean is an eloquent architect of strengths and shapes of passion, and remarkable in her harshly lyrical delineations of the lives of women and girls... (This Human Season) is a novel which captures a community's resilience and its humour full of broken glass. Louise Dean describes the exact glint of this spirit.”
Ali Smith.
“I read Louise Dean's Becoming Strangers with pleasure and admiration.”
“With clear-eyed compassion, and with all the resources of the novelist's art, Louise Dean leads us through those terrible days when for a while Belfast was a vortex for the worst of the world's cruelty and pain.”
— J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Prize Laureate.
The Novelry.
Louise Dean is the founder and director of the worldwide online writing school for novelists, The Novelry. More here.
The writing school for novelists with award-winning and bestselling authors and a professional publishing editor team. Founded by Louise Dean in 2017, The Novelry is a warm and encouraging home for aspiring and published novelists dedicated to creating novels that will excite publishers and delight readers. As recommended by the world’s leading literary agencies.
The Novelry warmly welcomes beginners. If you’re thinking about writing a novel or a memoir, come on in - it’s warm inside. More here.
Louise Dean. The Author
Louise Dean. The Tutor.
