Gabriel Krauze Q&A
Gabriel Krauze speaks about his novel Booker Prize-longlisted novel Who They Was, the inspiration behind it and the boundary between fact and fiction
Gabriel Krauze
Gabriel Krauze was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020. He grew up in London in a Polish family. Who They Was is his debut novel
He was drawn to a life of crime and gangs from an early age. Now in his 30s he has left that world behind and is recapturing his life through writing. He has published short stories in Vice.
All nominated books
An urgent and electrifying work of autofiction from Gabriel Krauze, the first-hand account of a young man who has lived a life of violent crime