Dr Jenni Fagan is an award-winning poet, novelist and screenwriter. After the publication of her debur novel The Panopticon, Jenni was selected as one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists. She has been on lists including the Desmond Elliott Prize, James Tait Black,
Sunday Times Short Story Prize and the BBC International Story Prize.
The Sunlight Pilgrims saw her win Scottish Author of the Year at the
Herald Culture Awards. Her third novel
Luckenbooth was praised in
The New York Times Book Review, who named her The Patron Saint of Literary Street Urchins. In 2022, Polygon published her most recent novel,
Hex, and
The Bone Library, a poetry collection written during her time as a Writer in Residence at the Dick Vet Bone Library. In 2024, her memoir
Ootlin is due to be published, as is her seventh poetry collection
A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block. Fagan recently wrote two hundred poems for a collectors book called
Heart of the Spirit, celebrating 200 years of The Macallan whisky.
En la que ha de ser la última noche de su vida, en una prisión de Edimburgo, en 1951, la bruja convicta Geillis Duncan recibe la visita misteriosa de Iris, un ser etéreo del siglo XXI que quiere acompañarla antes de ser ejecutada. A medida que pasan las horas y se acerca el amanecer,...
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