Diana Evans was born and brought up in London. Her bestselling debut novel, 26a, won the inaugural Orange Award for New Writers and the British Book Awards deciBel Writer of the Year prize. It was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, the Guardian First Book, the Commonwealth Best First Book and the Times/Southbank Show Breakthrough awards and nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Evans is a former dancer, and her journalism, criticism and essays appear in among others Time Magazine, Vogue, Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Bazaar. She has been an associate lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Books in order of publication:
26a – 2005
The Wonder – 2009
Ordinary People – 2018
A House for Alice: A Novel (Ordinary People # 2) – 2023
I Want to Talk to You: And Other Conversations – 2025
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