Joanna Kavenna author biography, plus links to books by Joanna Kavenna.

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Joanna Kavenna

Joanna Kavenna grew up in Britain, and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Baltic states. She is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel Inglorious won the Orange Award for New Writing, and her novel The Birth of Love was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Joanna Kavenna's writing has appeared in the New Yorker, London Review of Books, The Spectator and many others. She was named as one of the Telegraph's 20 "Writers under 40" in 2010, and one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.

This biography was last updated on 01/14/2020.

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