{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/63b458521043e00011114396/66b93e0902d146a034a48a39?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Holly Gramazio, curator, novelist (The Husbands).","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/63b458521043e00011114396/1723415808109-ac388127-8762-4e80-9e9a-d4305fec0570.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>My guest today is Holly Gramazio, a writer, curator, and game designer. Born in Australia, she earned her PhD in Creative Writing at the <strong>University of Adelaide</strong>, then moved to London where she founded the <strong>Somerset House</strong>-based games festival <strong>Now Play This</strong>, an annual celebration of experimental games. </p><p><br></p><p>In 2019 she wrote the script for <strong>Dicey Dungeons</strong>, a game that subsequently sold 850,000 copies and won the <strong>Indiecade Grand Jury Prize</strong>. In April this year, <strong>Vintage Books</strong> published her debut novel “<strong>The Husbands</strong>”,&nbsp;&nbsp;in which a young single woman discovers a limitless supply of husbands in her attic. <strong>The Times</strong> has described the book as “a brilliant satire on the Tinder generation’s commitment issues.” </p><p><br></p><p><u>LINKS</u></p><p><br></p><ul><li><a href=\"http://www.hollygramazio.net\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Holly's website</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.hollygramazio.com/husbandsgenerator/us.html#22045\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Husbands generator</a></li><li><a href=\"https://nowplaythis.net\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Now Play This festival</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/14/now-play-this-2024-somerset-house-london-review-liminal-playing-between-worlds\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Simon's write up of this year's NPT</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p>(Photo by Diana Patient.)</p>","author_name":"Simon Parkin"}