In this Man Booker 2018 longlist interview Daisy Johnson tells us what her favourite mythological story is and how it influenced Everything Under
Daisy Johnson
Daisy Johnson was born in 1990. Her debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016
In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under.
She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Oxford, England, by the river.
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Daisy Johnson’s debut novel turns classical myth on its head in an unsettling story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging
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