Rachel Cush (CA-UK)

British Canadian star author, Rachel Cusk, has recently released the novel Parade – a boundary-seeking novel, that expands our understanding of what literature can and should be. Parade is the story of G, an artist whose life contains many lives. It is also about a mother’s death, and the children left behind, who must deal with her inheritance. An inheritance which contains the stories she told, the roles she assigned them, and the ways in which she withheld her love.

Like Cusk’s international breakthrough – the Outline trilogy from the 2010s, Outline, Transit, and Kudos – Parade deals with the woman’s position as an artist, mother, muse, and partner. Cusk has not without reason been called an innovator of the novel genre. She has an uncompromising, matter-of-fact writing style, which focuses on the characters and leaves the narrator in the background.

Rachel Cusk (b. 1967) is born in Canada to British parents but has lived most of her life in England. She is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels and several award winning essays.