Missouri Williams is a British award-winning novelist based in Prague. The tone of Williams’ gothic debut, The Doloriad (2022), which won the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize, was compared to that of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Lászlo Krasznahorkai by literary critics.

William’s second novel, The Vivisectors, which was longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, continues with the themes found in The Doloriad: environmental cataclysm, ethics and philosophy.

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