Olivia Sudjic

Sudjic was born in London, England. Wanting to be a writer since she was a child, Sudjic studied at the City of London School for Girls and then read English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where she won the E.G. Harwood English Prize. About the craft of writing, she believes that "Novels are comparable to social media or crafting online profiles because you begin and you think you’re going to know this person. But this person isn’t real. It’s all made up, and you’re projecting yourself onto it."

Drawing on Sudjic’s experience of anxiety — as well as the work of Elena Ferrante, Maggie Nelson, Jenny Offill, Rachel Cusk and others — Exposure examines the damaging assumptions that attend female artists, indeed any woman who risks exposure, as well as the strategies by which one might escape them.

Sudjic's second book, Exposure, was published on 1 November 2018 by Peninsula Press.

Originally from the UK, Sudjic began writing Sympathy in 2014 while staying with her grandmother in Manhattan. New York City ended up becoming integral to the story, representing the protagonist's "...searching and longing for connection." In the beginning, Sudjic intended to write an historical novel, but changed her mind and set the story in contemporary times. Sympathy has been described as a feminist work, with Sudjic stating that the internet is male dominated and also that women writers are more pressured to talk about their personal lives then their male counterparts.

Olivia Sudjic (born 1988) is a British fiction writer whose first book Sympathy received positive reviews in the press, from publications such as the New York Times, The Guardian and The New Republic.