Joyce Hamya (born 1997)[1] is a British novelist. She has authored the novels Three Rooms (2021) and The Hypocrite (2024).
Early life and education
editHamya is from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father.[2] Hamya graduated from King’s College London and University of Oxford.[3] As of 2024, she is pursuing a PhD.[4]
Career
editHamya began her career as a copy editor for Tatler and a bookseller at Waterstones. She also contributed to the Financial Times and The British Blacklist. Hamya was 22 when she wrote her debut novel Three Rooms and 24 when it was published in 2021[5] via Jonathan Cape, as announced in 2020.[6]
In 2023, it was announced Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired the rights to publish Hamya's second novel The Hypocrite in 2024, which she described as "born out of questions the pandemic and my first novel left behind".[7]
Hamya co-hosts the Booker Prize Podcast with James Walton.[8]
Works
edit- Hamya, Jo (2021). Three Rooms. Boston New York: Mariner Books. ISBN 978-0-358-57209-1. [9]
- Hamya, Jo (2024-08-13). The Hypocrite. Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-593-70103-4. [10][11][4][12][13]
References
edit- ^ Hamya, Jo; Nicholls, David (12 August 2024). "Her Father's Sex Life Is the Star of the Show". Electric Literature. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ Hamya, Jo; Walton, James (30 August 2023). "The Booker Prize Podcast, Episode 10: The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens – the first woman to win the Booker Prize". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ Soltys, © Urszula (2022-11-17). "Jo Hamya". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ a b Anderson, Hephzibah (2024-04-20). "Jo Hamya: 'Could I just write one massive grey area?'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ Barratta, Franchesca. "Jo Hamya - Any Form Of Tender Accepted, Yet Not Easily Acquired". Flaunt. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ Chandler, Mark (22 July 2020). "Cape scoops 'exceptional' Hamya debut". The Bookseller. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ Brown, Lauren (26 June 2023). "Hamya moves to W&N with 'dazzling' second novel". The Bookseller. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ Harris, Neil Patrick (12 October 2023). "Primo Page-turners Only! A Podcast about Award-Winning Books". Wondercade. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
- ^ "Jo Hamya's "Three Rooms" Tells The Story Of Life During Brexit". NPR. 2021-08-28. Retrieved 2024-09-30.
- ^ Khatib, Joumana (2024-08-13). "Book Review: 'The Hypocrite,' by Jo Hamya". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ "Social Justice for the Upper Middle Class?". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2024-08-14. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ Rubsam, Robert (2024-08-14). "A playwright gets back at her dad onstage in 'The Hypocrite'". Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- ^ Taranto, Julius (2024-10-17). "The Father-Daughter Dance". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 71, no. 16. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2024-09-30.