Louise Dean

Louise is the founder of Thenovelry.com. The online creative writing courses recommended by the world's leading literary agencies with five-star reviews.

Louise Dean has won the Betty Trask Prize, Le Prince Maurice Prize, been nominated for The Guardian First Book Prize, and longlisted for the Booker Prize.  Her first book 'Becoming Strangers' was named one of The Observer's top four books of the year, and her most recent book 'The Old Romantic' an Oprah Book of the Week.

'Louise Dean's fearless, frank and darkly comic novels have brought a fresh colour and character to English fiction.' Boyd Tonkin, The Independent.


'Dean is an audacious arrival in British fiction.’ The Guardian.

'Dean writes with beautifully controlled clarity about family ties, social class, the generation gap and the vanished England of the past. She’s extremely funny, but also humane and moving.' The Times.

'Dean has a deliciously lucid and seemingly effortless style…’ Daily Mail.

Louise teaches novel writing and short stories and has spoken at Hay on Wye, Brisbane, Galle and Edinburgh Festivals.

She has appeared on BBC News, Radio 4, Woman's Hour with Jenni Murray and Mariella Frostrup amongst others.

Louise was educated at Cambridge University and has lived and worked in the USA and France.