Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth's debut novel, The Wake, won the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize; was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Folio Prize, and the Desmond Elliott Prize; and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He is also the author of two nonfiction books, One No, Many Yeses and Real England, as well as a poetry collection, Kidland. He cofounded the Dark Mountain Project, a global network of writers, artists and thinkers in search of new stories for a world on the brink.