[The Page 69 Test: The Old Romantic; Writers Read: Louise Dean (March 2011); My Book, The Movie: The Old Romantic]
Dean has won The Betty Trask Prize and Le Prince Maurice Prize, been nominated for The Guardian First Book Prize, and longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award and The Booker Prize. Her books have been deemed the top books of their year by The Guardian, The Observer and Publishers Weekly. A finalist for the Costa Coffee 2020 Short Story Award.
In 2017 Dean founded of The Novelry. It provides courses and advice to writers of any moral condition, with or without novels in progress.
At the Guardian the author tagged ten top novels about novelists, including:
The Plot by Jean Hanff KorelitzRead about the other entries on the list.
When down-on-his-luck author Jacob Finch Bonnet takes up a new teaching role at a Vermont college he is under-prepared, uninterested, and feeling impostor syndrome to his very bones. He soon encounters his worst nightmare: an extravagantly confident student possessed of an idea for a novel that is so remarkable that even Jake despairingly admits, “the worst writer on the planet could not mess up a plot like this”. Before too long, the stars align for Jake to make his ill-advised move. The killer plot is now his, and glittering success soon follows. But will it last? Spoiler: no.
--Marshal Zeringue
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