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Ali Shaw

  1. Titles: The Girl with Glass Feet, The Man Who Rained
  2. Agent: Susan Armstrong
  3. Website: Official blog
 

About Ali Shaw


‘Shaw has worked the great tradition of European fairy tales and come up with an ingenious story… A magical fable of fate and resignation.’ (Guardian)

Ali Shaw was born in 1982 and grew up in a small town in Dorset. He graduated from Lancaster University with a first class degree in English Literature and has worked as a bookseller in London and Oxford.


winner of the Desmond Elliott prize 2010


shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award 2009


longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2009


longlisted for the Dylan Thomas prize 2010

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