Marion Coutts

Genres: Autofiction | Fiction | Novel

Marion Coutts is a writer and artist who has exhibited throughout the UK and internationally. She has held fellowships at Tate Liverpool and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and was a research fellow at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Her first book, The Iceberg, won the Wellcome Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Book Award for Biography. She is a reader in art at Goldsmiths, University of London. Marion’s novel What Did The Deep Sea Say? was published by Fern Press, an imprint of Vintage, in February 2026.

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Creative Places West Cork Islands
Irish Examiner
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