Claire Adam

Novelist

Claire Adam, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, studied Physics in the US, and later took an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her first novel, Golden Child, was published in 2019 by Faber (UK) and SJP for Hogarth (USA), and in translation. It featured on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Book at Bedtime’ and was named one of BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Changed the World’. It was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the McKitterick Prize and was named as a ‘Book of the Year’ by the Evening Standard and The Times.