Lara Pawson’s first book In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre, was a runner-up for the Royal Africa Society Book of the Year 2015, longlisted for The Orwell Prize 2015, and shortlisted for both the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2015 and the Political Book Awards Debut Political Book of the Year 2015. Her fragmentary memoir, This is the Place to Be, was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, the PEN Ackerley Prize, and the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing. Spent Light is Lara Pawson’s debut novel. She lives in London.

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