Rachel Cusk, born in 1967 in Saskatoon, Canada, grew up mainly in Los Angeles. The family moved to Great Britain in 1974. Cusk studied English at Oxford University’s New College and then worked for a London literary agency, traveling to Spain and Central America. She made her debut in 1993 with the novel \u00bbSaving Agnes\u00ab, for which she was awarded the Whitbread First Novel Award.
She gained international recognition with the so-called Outline trilogy, a narrative project about life as a divorced woman, single mother, writer, and human being, consisting of the novels \u00bbOutline\u00ab (2014), \u00bbTransit\u00ab (2016), and \u00bbKudos\u00ab (2018).<\/p>\n\n
\u00bbOutline\u00ab is the psychogram of an author who gives a writing course in Athens in the summer and is confronted with a multitude of life stories of the participants. \u00bbTransit\u00ab follows the story of a woman who, after separating from her husband, tries to find her feet in a new life situation and a new environment. <\/p>\n\n
In \u00bbKudos\u00ab, a writer is on a reading tour with her new book after a failed relationship and is looking for answers to questions about her own identity. \u00bbFor me as a writer, it seems imperative to retreat to an autobiographical form that rejects the invented, falsified representations of reality\u00ab, says the author. In addition to her works of fiction, Cusk is also the author of literary essays. <\/p>\n\n
In \u00bbA Life’s Work\u00ab (2001), she soberly describes her experiences as a mother, while \u00bbAftermath\u00ab (2012) deals with the failure of her marriage. \u00bbRachel Cusk is a radical author who relentlessly reflects on her own self\u00ab, said DLF Kultur on the publication of \u00bbSecond Place\u00ab (2021). Inspired by the memoirs of patron Mabel Dodge Luhan, the novel about a woman who invites a famous artist to her home and experiences a bitter disappointment was longlisted for the Booker Prize. <\/p>\n\n
Her most recent novel \u00bbParade\u00ab (2024) interweaves the stories of several characters and takes up themes that define Cusk’s work, such as art, family, morality, and gender. <\/p>\n\n
Rachel Cusk lives in Paris.<\/p>\n\n
As of April 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79514,"template":"","jct-role":[1080],"jct-origin":[491],"jct-ilb-years":[612,906],"class_list":["post-41076","authors","type-authors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jct-role-author","jct-origin-united-kingdom","jct-ilb-years-2018-en","jct-ilb-years-2024-en"],"yoast_head":"\n