# Daisy Hildyard

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**Daisy Hildyard** (born 1984) is an English novelist and essayist best known for her novels, *Hunters in the Snow* and *Emergency*. She has won the [Somerset Maugham Award](/source/Somerset_Maugham_Award) and the [Encore Award](/source/Encore_Award).

## Early life

Hildyard was born in [Malton, North Yorkshire](/source/Malton,_North_Yorkshire).[1][2][3] She gained a first-class degree at [St Edmund Hall, Oxford](/source/St_Edmund_Hall,_Oxford) in 2003, and then studied for a doctorate in early modern scientific literature at [Queen Mary University of London](/source/Queen_Mary_University_of_London).[4]

## Career

### Novel writing

Hildyard's debut novel, *Hunters in the Snow*, was published in 2013. Set in rural Yorkshire, it interweaves memories of the narrator's childhood with her deceased grandfather's unreliable historical writings. Reviewers noted the influence of [W. G. Sebald](/source/W._G._Sebald).[5][6][7] The novel won the 2014 [Somerset Maugham Award](/source/Somerset_Maugham_Award), given to writers under the age of 35.[8]

In her next novel, *Emergency*, a narrator in [lockdown](/source/Lockdown) recalls her semi-rural childhood in the context of global environmental change.[9][10] It was shortlisted for the [Rathbones Folio Prize](/source/The_Writers'_Prize)[11] and won the 2023 [Encore Award](/source/Encore_Award), given for a second novel.[12]

### Other activities

In 2017, Hildyard's essay collection, *The Second Body* (2017), was published by [Fitzcarraldo Editions](/source/Fitzcarraldo_Editions). Its four long essays are linked by themes of climate and ecology disruption in the [Anthropocene](/source/Anthropocene).[13][14][15]

In 2022, Hildyard contributed the text to *Overpass*, a book of photographs exploring stiles and fences in the British countryside by landscape photographer and [2022 Guggenheim Fellow](/source/List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_2022) Sam Contis.[16][17]

Hildyard has also published fiction in *[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*,[18] essays and fiction in *[Granta](/source/Granta)*,[13] and reviews in *[The New York Review of Books](/source/The_New_York_Review_of_Books)*[19] and the *[Times Literary Supplement](/source/Times_Literary_Supplement)*.[20]

## Personal life

Hildyard is married to writer [Caleb Klaces](/source/Caleb_Klaces) (winner of a 2012 [Eric Gregory Award](/source/Eric_Gregory_Award)).[21][4] She lives with her husband and children in North Yorkshire.[3][22]

## Select publications

### Novels

- Hildyard, Daisy (2013). *Hunters in the Snow*. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224097444.
- Hildyard, Daisy (2023). *Emergency*. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 9781913097813.

### Essays

- Hildyard, Daisy (2017). *The Second Body*. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. ISBN 9781910695470.

## References

1. ["Daisy Hildyard"](https://www.penguin.com.au/authors/daisy-hildyard). *Penguin Books Australia*. Retrieved 17 December 2024.

1. ["Who's Who: Daisy Hildyard"](https://yorkauthors.wordpress.com/whos-who/daisy-hildyard/). *York Authors*. Retrieved 17 December 2024.

1. ["Daisy Hildyard"](https://fitzcarraldoeditions.com/authors/daisy-hildyard/). *Fitzcarraldo Editions*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Daisy Hildyard: Writer"](https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/daisy-hildyard). *St Edmund Hall*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. Thorpe, Adam (19 August 2013). ["Hunters in the Snow by Daisy Hildyard – review"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/19/hunters-snow-daisy-hildyard-review). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Book review: Hunters in the Snow, By Daisy Hildyard"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-hunters-in-the-snow-by-daisy-hildyard-8771149.html). *The Independent*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. Wilson, Angus (13 July 2013). ["The history girl"](https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-history-girl/). *The Spectator*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. ["Somerset Maugham Awards: Past winners"](https://societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/somerset-maugham-awards/). The Society of Authors. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Detritus of a lifetime"](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/fiction/emergency-daisy-hildyard-book-review-clare-pettitt). *The TLS*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. Moss, Sarah (4 May 2022). ["Emergency by Daisy Hildyard review – a dark pastoral"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/04/emergency-by-daisy-hildyard-review-a-dark-pastoral). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Margo Jefferson wins 2023 Rathbones Folio prize"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/mar/27/margo-jefferson-wins-2023-rathbones-folio-prize). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. Spanoudi, Melina (15 June 2023). ["Hildyard wins £10,000 Encore Award for Emergency"](https://www.thebookseller.com/news/hildyard-wins-10000-encore-award-for-emergency). *The Bookseller*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Daisy Hildyard"](https://granta.com/contributor/daisy-hildyard/). *Granta*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["The Second Body by Daisy Hildyard review – from winter floods to the origin of life"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/04/second-body-daisy-hildyard-review). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. ["Book Review: The Second Body"](https://atticusreview.org/book-review-the-second-body/). *Atticus Review*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. Contis, Sam & Hildyard, Daisy. *Overpass*. Aperture. ISBN 9781597115391.

1. Frailey, Stephen. ["Sam Contis"](https://www.artforum.com/events/stephen-frailey-sam-contis-klaus-von-nichtssagend-gallery-2024-549739/). *Artforum*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. Hildyard, Daisy (15 December 2024). ["Revision \[short story\]"](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/23/revision-fiction-daisy-hildyard). *The New Yorker*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Daisy Hildyard"](https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/daisy-hildyard/). *The New York Review of Books*. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["Daisy Hildyard"](https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/daisy-hildyard). *The TLS*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

1. ["Eric Gregory Awards: Past winners"](https://societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-soa-awards/eric-gregory-awards/). The Society of Authors. Retrieved 15 December 2024.

1. ["'Is writing about climate change a futile act?': Daisy Hildyard on The Second Body and Emergency"](https://thelondonmagazine.org/interview-is-writing-about-climate-change-a-futile-act-daisy-hildyard-on-the-second-body-and-emergency/). *The London Magazine*. Retrieved 25 January 2025.

## Further reading

- [Interview](https://magazine.tank.tv/issue-91/talks/daisy-hildyard) in *[Tank](/source/Tank_(magazine))* magazine
- [Interview](https://thelondonmagazine.org/interview-is-writing-about-climate-change-a-futile-act-daisy-hildyard-on-the-second-body-and-emergency/) by Rose Brookfield in *[The London Magazine](/source/The_London_Magazine)*

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