Elizabeth Cook

Elizabeth Cook is an award-winning author, poet and librettist. She is the author of novels including Lux (Scribe, 2019) and Achilles (Methuen, 2001) which, in a performance version, won a Fringe First at Edinburgh and has been performed at the National Theatre. She wrote the libretto for Francis Grier’s The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, commissioned and broadcast by the BBC.

“Lux emerges as an unusual and accomplished page turner. It’s ambitious, incredibly detailed, sometimes allusive, and occasionally opaque.” – Irish Examiner.

“I have never read anything like [Achilles]… Her writing is charged: every moment matters, each word counts, as if time were running out.” – The Observer.