Background
The daughter of Suzy Boyt and artist Lucian Freud, and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud.
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Susie Boyt
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Susie Boyt was educated at Channing and at Camden School for Girls and read English at Street Catherine"s College, Oxford, graduating in 1992. Working variously at a Puerto Rico agency, and a literary agency, she completed her first novel, The Normal Manitoba, which was published in 1995 by Weidenfeld and Nicholson.
Career
She returned to university to do a Masters in Anglo American Literary Relations at University College London studying the works of Henry James and the poet John Berryman. To date she has published four novels. In 2008, she published My Judy Garland Life, a layering of biography, hero-worship and self-help.
Her journalism includes an ongoing column in the weekend Life & Arts section of the Financial Times.
My Judy Garland Life, 2008.
Achievements
Awards
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John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
he John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.he John Llewellyn Rhys Prize was a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of literature (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama) by an author from the Commonwealth aged 35 or under, written in English and published in the United Kingdom.