Sophie Elmhirst
Sophie Elmhirst is a contributing writer at the New Statesman. She previously worked for Save the Children, the Guardian and Prospect.
Articles by Sophie Elmhirst
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TS Eliot prize shortlist announced
- 20 October 2011
New collections from Carol Ann Duffy, Alice Oswald and John Burnside all nominated
Theatre
The NS Interview: Harriet Walter, actress
- 13 October 2011
- 1 comment
“The good guys have got to shout louder. It’s always the way”
Books
The NS Profile — Claire Tomalin
- 13 October 2011
- 2 comments
The award-winning writer and former New Statesman literary editor hangs up her biographer’s coat with a life of Dickens . . . and contemplates one of her own.
Art
The NS Interview: Audrey Niffenegger, artist and author
- 07 October 2011
“Only a pathetic excuse for a story ends with everybody doomed”
Poetic justice
- 06 October 2011
- 1 comment
John Burnside, shortlisted three times before, finally wins the Forward Prize
Politics
Glasman sticks up for Blue Labour
- 26 September 2011
- 13 comments
The Labour peer continues to promote his particular brand of anti-managerial politics.
