Novelist
Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma (2012), was the winner of the Scottish First Book Award while also being shortlisted for the South Bank Sky Arts Literature Award, Guardian First Book Award, Green Carnation Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Prize and the Polari First Book Award. Kerry’s second novel, Thirst (2014), won France’s most prestigious award for foreign fiction, the Prix Femina Étranger. Her latest book, a memoir, Lowborn (2019), takes her back to the towns of her childhood as she investigates her own past and what it means to be poor in Britain today. It was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and a Guardian and Independent Book of the Year. Kerry was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.