The Matchbox Girl: Winner of the 2026 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction

Contributor Bio:Jolly, Alice

Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her writing has been awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize, an O Henry Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, and been longlisted for Ondaatje Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. She teaches on the Creative Writing Masters at Oxford University.
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