Joanna Kavenna
Joanna Kavenna is a prize-winning British novelist and travel writer who spent her childhood across various parts of Britain and has lived in the United States, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and the Baltic States.
Her debut book, The Ice Museum (2005), blending history, travel, and literary criticism, was nominated for several prestigious awards.
She has held writing fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge and currently serves as writer-in-residence at St Peter's College, Oxford.
Her work frequently explores themes of country versus city, self and place, and the individual within hyper-capitalist society.
She is now based in the Duddon Valley, Cumbria.
