Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert is a British novelist and short story writer.

Seiffert has published five works of fiction to date: The Dark Room (2001) is a novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize[3] and the Guardian First Book Award in 2001, winner of the LA Times Prize for First Fiction and a Betty Trask Award in 2002. The 2012 movie Lore by writer-director Cate Shortland is based on The Dark Room.

Field Study (2004) is a collection of short stories, one of which received an award from International PEN. Afterwards (2007) is a novel, long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction the same year. The Walk Home (2014) is a novel set in Glasgow about a family torn apart. A Boy in Winter (2017) is a novel set during the 1941 German invasion of the Ukraine during Operation Barbarossa.

Seiffert was named as one of Granta magazine’s 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and her short story “Field Study” was included in the subsequent collection. In 2011, she received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been translated into ten languages.