Christopher Priest

Since arriving on the literary scene with his debut novel Indoctrinaire in 1970, Christopher Priest has become one of the household names of British science fiction, known for his expansive oeuvre that often explores the realms of delusional alternate realities.

Priest has won the BSFA Best Novel Award four times – in 1974 for Inverted World; in 1998 for The Extremes; in 2002 for The Separation; and in 2011 for The Islanders – as well as several other accolades, including 1995 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Prestige – an epistolary masterpiece about a prolonged feud between two stage magicians in nineteenth-century England. Priest has also written drama for radio and features for the Times, the Guardian and the Independent, amongst others. His more recent novels include An American Story (2018), an engrossing meditation on memory and mourning through the prism of 9/11, and The Evidence (2020) that follows a crime writer on his visit to a highly mysterious island.