Matthew Sperling (writer)

Matthew Sperling (born 1982) is a British-American novelist and academic. He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School and the University of Oxford, and is Associate Professor in Literature in English from 1900 to the Present Day at University College London.

His first novel, Astroturf, was published in 2018. It was chosen as a best summer book by Joe Dunthorne in The Guardian and as a Book of the Year by Rebecca Tamás in The White Review, and was longlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2019. His second novel, Viral, was published in 2020, and was chosen as Novel of the Week in The Sunday Telegraph. Sperling was named among “important male novelists under 40” by James Marriott in The Times in 2020.

He regularly writes about modern art for Apollo magazine. He was a judge for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction in 2020.

Works

Fiction

Astroturf (riverrun, 2018) Viral (riverrun, 2020)

Literary Criticism

Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words (Oxford University Press, 2014)

References

1982 births

Living people

21st-century British novelists

21st-century British non-fiction writers

British literary critics

Academics of University College London

Alumni of the University of Oxford