Natasha Brown

About Natasha Brown

The award usually comes with a prize of 10,000 pounds in addition to a full year of support from the National Centre for Writing. Before she became the critically acclaimed author that she is today, Brown spent more than ten years working in finance. Before that, she had attended Cambridge University where she studied Mathematics. Her debut novel follows the life and times of a Black British woman working in finance even though she has asserted that her novel is not autobiographical. The work tells the stories that we live within those of freedom and safety, losers and winners, class and race, and a woman daring to take control of her own story even if it would cost her life. She began penning her novel when she won the literary fiction category at the London Writers Award in 2019.