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Stephanie Sy-Quia was born in 1995 and is based in London. Her writing and criticism have been published in The Guardian, The White Review, The Boston Review, Granta, The TLS, and others. She is a Ledbury Poetry Critic and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay Prize. Her debut Amnion, published by Granta Poetry in 2021, received a Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation; was longlisted for the Rathbones Folio and RSL Ondaatje Prizes; and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award.

Her debut novel A Private Man will be published in 2026 by Picador in the UK, Grove Atlantic in the US and Suhrkamp in Germany.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,787 ratings · 423 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

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“What if, instead, we treated this life as heaven? Heaven is at hand? That we have to find it, make it for ourselves. Work as if we were already living in the early days of a better world.”
― Stephanie Sy-Quia

tags: catholic, inspirational, love

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“I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. No, he thought. We are not masters of our fate. We cannot be. But captains of our souls. That we can attempt.”
― Stephanie Sy-Quia, A Private Man

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“To live a quiet life: this too can be a radical political act.”
― Stephanie Sy-Quia, A Private Man

tags: life, political-philosophy, romance-novels

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