Alexander Starritt (born 1985) is a Scottish-German novelist, journalist and entrepreneur. Starritt was educated at Somerville College, Oxford. He came to public attention in 2017 with the release of his debut novel The Beast. He was also one of the founding team on the policy platform Apolitical, which in 2018 was listed by US business magazine Fast Company as one of the World’s ‘Most Innovative Companies’.
Starritt has also published several translations from German, including works by Stefan Zweig and Arthur Schnitzler. In 2020 he published We Germans, a novel about Germans defeated on the Eastern Front of World War II. It was the winner of the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Starritt donated the prize money to his alma mater, Somerville College, Oxford to fund a new Sanctuary Scholarship in memory of his mother.
Books in order of publication:
Novels:
The Beast. London: Head of Zeus. (2017)
We Germans. JM Originals. (2020)
Drayton and Mackenzie. London: Swift Press. (2025)
Translations:
A Chess Story by Stefan Zweig. London: Pushkin Press. (2013)
Late Fame by Arthur Schnitzler. London: NYRB Books. (2017)
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