#051: Cecile Pin — Writing Literary Fiction, Telling Your Family’s Story, Starting Your Career as an Author, Reality of Working In Publishing, Advice For First-Time Authors

Debut novelist Cecile Pin author of Wandering Souls (nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction, 2023), on her choice of using a fragmented structure, having multiple narrators and why she chose to fictionalise a story that was inspired by her mother’s past. Plus, lessons from working in publishing and what all first-time authors should know.

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ABOUT CECILE PIN:

Cecile Pin grew up in Paris and New York City. She moved to London at eighteen to study philosophy at University College London and received an MA at King's College London. She writes for Bad Form Review, was long-listed for their Young Writers' Prize, and is a 2021 London Writers Award winner. Wandering Souls is her first novel and was longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction, 2023. She previously worked as an Editorial Assistant at Jonathan Cape, PRH.

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RESOURCES:

• Wandering Souls
• Women's Prize for Fiction long-list 2023
• London Writers Award
• Stephen King's On Writing
• The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson
• Human Acts by Han Kang
• Atonement by Ian McEwan
• Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition by Cathy Park Hong

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FOLLOW CECILE PINN

• Website
• Instagram: @CecilekvPin
• Twitter: @CecilekvPin

   

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