Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic. He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor in Literature in English from 1900 to the Present Day at University College London.[1]

His first novel, Astroturf, was published in 2018.[2][3] It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in The Guardian[4] and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in The White Review,[5] and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019.[6] His second novel, Viral, was published in 2020,[7] and was chosen as Novel of the Week in The Sunday Telegraph.[8] Sperling was named among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in The Times in 2020.[9]

He regularly writes about modern art for Apollo magazine.[10] He was a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020.[11]

Works

Fiction

  • Astroturf (riverrun, 2018) ISBN 9781787471153
  • Viral (riverrun, 2020) ISBN 9781529401950

Literary Criticism

  • Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780198701088[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Matthew Sperling". ucl.ac.uk. 30 April 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  2. ↑ "Astroturf by Matthew Sperling: A brawn cocktail that nails the zeitgeist". irishtimes.com. 1 September 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  3. ↑ "Body doubles: Toxic masculinity on steroids". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  4. ↑ "Best Summer Holiday Reads 2018". The Guardian. 8 July 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  5. ↑ "Books of the Year". thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  6. ↑ "2019". wellcomebookprize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  7. ↑ "Capitalism, not sex: Grasping for control of the memes of production in Viral by Matthew Sperling and Docile by K. M. Szpara". the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  8. ↑ Kerridge, Jake (20 September 2020). "Novel of the week: Viral by Matthew Sperling". The Sunday Telegraph.
  9. ↑ "Booker Prize 2020 longlist: where are the new male hotshot novelists?". thetimes.co.uk. 28 July 2020. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  10. ↑ "Matthew Sperling, Author at Apollo Magazine". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  11. ↑ "JUDGES ANNOUNCED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION AND THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING". orwellfoundation.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  12. ↑ O’Hanlon, Karl (2016). "Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words by Matthew Sperling". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (2): 486–488. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0033. ISSN 1080-6601. S2CID 148342908.
  13. ↑ James Underwood (2016). "Book Review: Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words by Matthew Sperling (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)". The Modern Language Review. 111 (4): 1131. doi:10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.1131. JSTOR 10.5699/modelangrevi.111.4.1131.
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