Zoe Pilger was born in 1984 in London. She is finishing the third in a series of new novels about women and art, which is supported by The Society of Authors and Arts Council England. She is represented by The Wylie Agency.

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Zoe Pilger's first novel, Eat My Heart Out, was republished as a Serpent's Tail Modern Classic in 2020. It was first published in 2014, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and a Betty Trask Award in the UK, and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award in the US. 

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Zoe Pilger was formerly the art critic for The Independent newspaper. She won the 2011 Frieze Writers Prize, and she was shortlisted for the 2015 Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for arts journalism. She has written widely on feminism and art. 

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Zoe Pilger has a BA in Social and Political Science from Cambridge University, an MA in Comparative Literary Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. She is working on a PhD on women and art. 

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