Lauren Aimee Curtis
Lauren Aimee Curtis was born in Sydney in 1988. She is the author of Dolores, which was shortlisted for the Readings Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, and selected as a New Statesman Book of the Year. ‘Strangers at the Port’ is an excerpt from her novel of the same title, forthcoming from Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2023.
Lauren Aimee Curtis on Granta.com
Fiction | Issue 163
Strangers at the Port
Lauren Aimee Curtis
‘The other islands in the archipelago had their active volcanoes; now we had the men.’
An extract from Lauren Aimee Curtis’s forthcoming novel.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1944: Transit
Lauren Aimee Curtis
Lauren Aimee Curtis on why Transit by Anna Seghers is the best book of 1944.
Notes on Craft | The Online Edition
Lauren Aimee Curtis | Notes on Craft
Lauren Aimee Curtis
‘I think that if we knew, really understood, the reasons why certain stories take hold of us, we would have no need for fiction at all.’ Lauren Aimee Curtis shares her notes on the craft of writing.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Dolores
Lauren Aimee Curtis
‘There she is: Dolores. Newly named. Sitting at the kitchen table inside the convent, conscious of how bad she must smell.’
