Portrait of  Amy Sackville

Amy Sackville

Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing

About

My most recent novel, Painter to the King (Granta, 2018), tells the story of the artist Velázquez’s time as court painter to Philip IV of Spain. The Still Point, my first book, was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for a work of literature by a writer under 35; it was also long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Dylan Thomas Prize. My second, Orkney, won a Somerset Maugham award in 2014. I am an occasional reviewer and writer of short fiction, and a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

Staff profile

https://www.kent.ac.uk/english/staff/sackville.html

Last updated 20th April 2021