{"id":2091,"date":"2022-12-12T12:04:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett\/?page_id=2091"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:44:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:44:31","slug":"claire-louise-bennett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/beckett\/claire-louise-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire-Louise Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Claire-Louise Bennett<\/strong> has written two acclaimed works of fiction. Her debut Pond<\/em><\/a> was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2015. It was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2016. In 2022 the highly-anticipated novel Checkout 19<\/em> was a pick of the year in The Guardian<\/em>, The Telegraph<\/em> and the New Statesman<\/em>. It was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Her short story \u2018Invisible Bird recently appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Claire-Louise studied drama and has worked extensively in theatre, often speaking of her admiration for Samuel Beckett\u2019s plays. Beckett\u2019s prose too has been a major influence. In an interview in The Guardian<\/em> she remarks how reading Beckett gives her \u2018a sense of space and a kind of an ease, almost; you know, I don\u2019t know if there is any kind of meaning and I don\u2019t like to get too attached to ideas anyhow. I\u2019m quite able to sort of just hang in a way.\u2019 We are very pleased that Claire-Louise has taken the opportunity to hang a bit more with Beckett by engaging with Reading\u2019s world-renowned collection of his papers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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