Zoe Pilger

Zoe Pilger (born 1984) is a British author and art critic. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out won a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award and she is in the process of writing a second novel. She is the daughter of author, John Pilger, and journalist, Yvonne Roberts. She is currently living in Berlin.

Career

Pilger has been an art critic for a British newspaper, The Independent since 2012. Her first novel, Eat My Heart Out was published by Serpent's Tail. The novel has been described as a post-feminist satire about modern romance.

She is currently researching her PhD on romantic love and sadomasochism in the work of female artists at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Awards and Nominations

• 2011 Frieze Writer’s Prize
• 2014 - Shortlisted for the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for journalism in art.
• 2015 - Somerset Maugham Award for Eat My Heart Out
• 2015 - Betty Trask Award for Eat My Heart Out
• 2016 - Shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature for Eat My Heart Out

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• "The Independent". zoe-pilger. Retrieved 8 October 2016. 
• Boureau, Ella (20 June 2016). "28th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists and Winners". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 9 October 2016.