Laura Steven | |
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Occupation | Author, journalist |
Citizenship | England |
Period | 2018–present |
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Laura Steven is an English novelist. She won the inaugural Comedy Women in Print Prize for her novel The Exact Opposite of Okay. [1]
She has used comedy to explore feminist issues in her young adult novels, including an exploration of beauty in Every Exquisite Thing (her re-telling of The Picture of Dorian Gray) [2] and female rage in The Society for Soulless Girls (her re-telling of Jekyll and Hyde). [3]
"Girls don't want beauty. Girls want power. And sometimes beauty is the closest substitute."
"Girls don't want beauty. Girls want power. And sometimes beauty is the closest substitute."