Conversation with Madeleine Watts
#Scurf201: The writer on her most recent novel, learning German and life in Berlin
For the latest Conversation, I emailed with Madeleine Watts. Watts is a writer of fiction, stories, and essays. Her second novel, Elegy, Southwest, is forthcoming in February 2025 from Simon & Schuster (North America), Pushkin (UK), and Ultimo Press (ANZ). Her first novel, The Inland Sea, was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her writing has been published in Harper’s Magazine, The Believer, The White Review, Literary Hub, and The Paris Review Daily, among others. She has an MFA in Writing from Columbia University. Between 2014 and 2020 she was a bookseller at McNally Jackson in New York City. Born in Australia, and after over a decade in New York, she has recently moved to Berlin.
