Kathryn Heyman
Writers
“A powerful and literary triumph”
Review of FURY by Anna Funder
Kathryn Heyman is an international award-winning author of seven novels, a memoir and a poetry collection.
She won the Wingate and Southern Arts Prizes, the Arts Council of England Writers Award and her memoir FURY was nominated for the Folio International Prize with development underway to turn it into a feature film. CIRCLE OF WONDERS, her latest novel, will be published by Fourth Estate/HarperCollins in 2026.
Kathryn has been longlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction) and shortlisted for awards including the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the West Australian Premier’s Awards, the Edinburgh Fringe Critic’s Awards, the Kibble Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
Alongside her publishing career, Kathryn has written plays for stage and for BBC radio, including adaptations of her own novels. Her BBC Radio dramatic serialisation of her novel CAPTAIN STARLIGHT’S APPRENTICE aired to an audience of almost two million. As well as adaptations, her full-length dramas for BBC Radio include the audio dramas THE OTHER COUNTRY and MOONLITE’S BOY, using the original letters of Andrew Scott, aka the bushranger Captain Moonlite.