Alex Pheby

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Alex Pheby
OccupationNovelist
NationalityUnited Kingdom
GenreLiterary fiction
Medical fiction
Fantasy fiction

Alex Pheby (born 1970)[1] is a British author and academic. He currently teaches at the University of Greenwich, He studied at Manchester University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Goldsmiths. and UEA.[2]

Career[]

Pheby's second novel, Playthings, was described as “the best neuro-novel ever written" in Literary Review.[3] The novel deals with the true case of Daniel Paul Schreber, a 19th-century German judge afflicted by schizophrenia, who was committed to an asylum. In 2016, Playthings was shortlisted for the £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize.[4] His third novel, Lucia,, concerning the suspected schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, released in 2018 was joint winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize.[5] He is also the author of Grace, published by Two Ravens Press.

Mordew, published in 2020 by Galley Beggar Press, is the first of a trilogy of fantasy novels. Critics have praised the world building, the balance between "invention and familiarity", and described the novel as "dizzying".[6][7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Pheby, Alex". id.loc.gov. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
  2. ^ https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/fach/alex-pheby
  3. ^ "A Waking Dreamer". Literary Review.
  4. ^ "Playthings by Alex Pheby review – the madness of Daniel Paul Schreber". The Guardian. 20 November 2015.
  5. ^ "Novels about Lucia Joyce and Alan Turing win Republic of Consciousness Prize". The Irish Times.
  6. ^ Roberts, Adam (2020-08-20). "Mordew by Alex Pheby review – an extravagant, unnerving fantasy". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  7. ^ "Magic and miasma: Mordew, by Alex Pheby, reviewed | the Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
  8. ^ "Mordew: a city of compelling characters and dark adventures". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
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