Nathan Harris Q&A
‘I wanted to do justice to the characters I had in my head’
Nathan Harris
Nathan Harris was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021. He is a Michener fellow at the University of Texas. The Sweetness of Water is his debut novel
The Sweetness of Water was awarded the Kidd prize, as judged by Anthony Doerr, and was also a finalist for the Tennessee Williams fiction prize. Harris lives in Austin, Texas.
You worry about whether you’re getting the story down properly. You anguish over the quality of the prose
All nominated books
Conjuring a world fraught with tragedy and violence yet threaded through with hope, Nathan Harris’ debut novel is enthralling and deeply moving
