Tom Crewe | |
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Born | 1989 (age 34–35) Middlesbrough, England |
Occupation | Author and historian |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Notable works | The New Life (2023) |
Notable awards | Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (2023) |
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Tom Crewe (born 1989) is an English novelist, best known for his 2023 debut novel, The New Life. In April 2023, Granta included Crewe on their " Best of Young British Novelists" list, [1] an honour presented every ten years "to the twenty most significant British novelists under forty." [2] The Observer included Crewe in their list of the ten best new novelists of 2023. [3]
Crewe was born in 1989 in Middlesbrough. [4] He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in nineteenth-century British history from the University of Cambridge. [4] [5] He has served as an editor at the London Review of Books since 2015. [4] [6] He has contributed to the London Review of Books, [7] The Telegraph, [8] and other major outlets.
His debut novel, The New Life, was published January 2023 by Chatto & Windus and Scribner. It is also set to be published in French, German, Spanish, and Dutch. [4] It won the 2023 Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award [9] and was shortlisted for the 2024 Walter Scott Prize. [10]