Maddie Mortimer
Maddie Mortimer (born 1996) is a British novelist. Writing
Mortimer has described her first novel, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, as "an elegy to my mum and to our relationship". Mortimer's mother died of cancer in 2010 and the book focuses on a fictional woman called Lia who has a "shapeshifting cancer inside her body. Moving between Lia’s past and present, the book is a look at memory, mother-daughter relationships, and coming to terms with death". Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies won the 2022 Desmond Elliott Prize, which is awarded for a debut novel published in the UK or Ireland. It was also shortlisted for the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize and longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Personal life 
Mortimer studied English Literature at the University of Bristol, and has worked in marketing and as a screenwriter. Her mother was the writer and filmmaker Katie Pearson. Selected publications

Awards 

Desmond Elliott Prize in 2022
Shortlisted for Goldsmiths Prize in 2022
Longlisted for 2022 Booker Prize

References 

1996 births
Living people
21st-century British novelists
Recipients of Desmond Elliott Prize
British women novelists
Alumni of the University of Bristol