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Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic.
His first novel, Astroturf, was published in 2018.[1][2] It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in The Guardian[3] and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in The White Review,[4] and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019.[5] His second novel, Viral, was published in 2020,[6] and was chosen as Novel of the Week in The Sunday Telegraph.[7] Sperling was named among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in The Times in 2020.[8]
Sperling was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor of Creative and Critical Writing at University College London.[9] He regularly writes about modern art for Apollo magazine.[10] He was a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020.[11]
Works
Fiction
- Astroturf (riverrun, 2018) ISBN 9781787471153
- Viral (riverrun, 2020) ISBN 9781529401950
Literary Criticism
- Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 9780198701088[12][13]
Interviews
- "Creatives in profile: interview with Matthew Sperling", Nothing in the Rulebook (September 2020)[14]
References
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