Luke Williams (author)

Luke Williams (born 1977)^[1] is a Scottish author, whose first novel The Echo Chamber won the 2011 Saltire Society's Scottish First Book of the Year award.^[2] He co-authored a book with Natasha Soobramanien, titled Diego Garcia, which won the Goldsmiths Prize in 2022.^[3][4][5][6] Williams teaches Creative Writing at Birkbeck.^[7]

Life

Williams grew up in Fife and lives in both London and Edinburgh.^[1] He studied history at the University of Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.^[8] He completed an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by W. G. Sebald, who influenced him greatly; Williams contributing a chapter to Saturn's Moons: A W.G. Sebald Handbook.^[1]