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“A major book by a woman who is, no question, a major writer. … she writes like four kinds of gorgeous, so deep in love with the world that when the right word isn't there she simply births it… a majestic anthropology” – Bill McKibben , The Ecologist
“Jay Griffiths has the gift of insatiable curiosity. She is intensely aware of the world around her, its wonders, its horrors and its absurdities. She questions and protests and celebrates – all in a language which is constantly alive, often sparkling and deep, like a good river. She is a revealer and a healer - to travel through time in the company of such a magical writer is a delight.” Adrian Mitchell , Shadow Poet Laureate.
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Jay Griffiths has written for various publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Observer, the Ecologist, New Internationalist, Utne, the Idler and BBC History magazine. She has written for peer-reviewed academic publication and has translated “El Ojo Verde: Cosmovisiones Amazonicas” (The Green Eye: Amazonian Cosmovisions) from Spanish to English.
“Pip Pip” has been translated and published in several languages. It won several awards including the Barnes and Noble “Discover” award for the best new non-fiction writer in the USA, 2003. “Wild” has won the inaugural Orion book award, 2007.
“Anarchipelago”, her fiction based on the British anti-roads protests, is published by Wooden Books in 2007.
Jay Griffiths has also spoken on both Time and Wildness, at
• The ICA
• The Hayward Gallery
• The World Wilderness Congress
• The Adelaide Festival of Ideas
• Literary festivals including the Hay festival, the Ilkley festival, Women's Arts International.
• She has broadcast on national radio in the States and Australia, and on BBC Radio 4, (Start The Week, the Today programme, Woman's Hour, Broadcasting House) and the World Service.
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“Jay Griffiths' voice is a light beam in the fog of twenty-first century debate.” Barry Lopez , author of Arctic Dreams .
“She writes like an angel” – A.D. Nuttall
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and just a couple of corrections to some stuff in the papers…
Jay Griffiths has written articles based on her books for various publications, but she is not a journalist. She is also not an adventurer or an explorer nor an editor, nor an associate editor of any magazine. She is a writer. (She used to be a part-time waitress, as did most of us writers.)
The Sunday Times published a review of “Wild”, much of which was based not, as is customary, on the book itself, but on false insinuations about the author's personal financial situation. So, for the record… Jay Griffiths grew up with access to books but not money. She borrowed money to go to university, and has spent some fifteen years below the poverty line with all the usual housing problems that entails.
The Washington Post published a favourable review of “Wild” which unfortunately criticized a sentence on whale intelligence. The meaning of the line was cocked up by a copy editor's over-enthusiasm for commas and was not what the author actually wrote.… oh dear.
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“Start with Wild ,which does just what it says in the title: takes off on an exhilarating, freeflowing, free-spirited exploration of the wild places of the earth and the wilderness of personal feelings not yet wholly lost to us but which most of us lack the courage to find.” – Summer Reading in The Times
“Insightful, effervescent and lavishly written…She shrouds her amazingly strenuous physical journey with a rich literary penumbra. The book has a profusion of historical allusions and a fertile bibliography; the vivid, excited writing draws haunting, lovely connections among multiple cultures, landscapes and ideas.” – Ruth Padel, The Washington Post.
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Jay Griffiths is represented by:
Jessica Woollard
The Marsh Agency
50 Albemarle Street,
London, W1S 4BD,
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44(0)20 7493 4361
Fax: +44(0)20 7495 8961
Jessica@marsh-agency.co.uk
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> “Wild: An Elemental Journey”. Introduction and chapter titles
> “Wild: An Elemental Journey”. Excerpts on Songlines and Freedom
> “Wild: An Elemental Journey”. From the reviews
> “Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time.” Introduction and chapter titles
> “Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time.” Excerpt from the book
> “Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time.” From the reviews
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