Evie Wyld occupation novelist
Evelyn Rose Strange "Evie" Wyld  (born 16 June 1980) is an Anglo-Australian author. Her first novel, After the Fire, A Still Small Voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2009, and her second novel, All the Birds, Singing, won the Encore Award in 2013 and the Miles Franklin Award in 2014. Her third novel, The Bass Rock, won the Stella Prize in 2021.Early life and education
Born in London in 1980, Evie Wyld grew up on her grandparents' sugar cane farm in New South Wales, Australia, although she spent most of her adult life in Peckham, south London. In The Guardian she recounts how as a child she suffered from viral encephalitis.She obtained a BA from Bath Spa University and an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, both in Creative Writing.
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