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Lara Pawson

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Lara Pawson lives in London. She is the author of three books.

Spent Light (CB editions, January 2024) is a hybrid work of prose combining fiction, memoir and history. It was shortlisted for the The Goldsmiths Prize 2024 and was a book of the year in the The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, Frieze magazine, and New Statesman. It has received rave reviews in The Guardian, the TLS, The Telegraph, the Financial Times, The Irish Times, The Spectator, New Statesman, The Idler, and the Daily Mail. It has been translated into Serbian (Prometej, 2024) and Dutch (Koppernik, 2025), and is soon to be published in the United States with McNally Editions.

This Is the Place to Be (CB editions, 2016) is a fragmentary memoir. In 2017, it was shortli
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Spent Light

3.52 avg rating — 269 ratings3 editions
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This Is the Place to Be

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In the Name of the People: ...

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“A building is only good, thought Kahn, if its ruins will be any good. He was discouraged by those who thought about buildings in terms of functionality. A building is a spirit, he said. It is made out of man.”
Lara Pawson, Spent Light

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