
Madeleine Watts
@madeleine_watts
Writer. Novels ELEGY, SOUTHWEST ( 2025) and THE INLAND SEA (2021). Work in @believermag, @Harpers, @HEAT_journal, @lithub. Perpetual Australian.
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ELEGY, SOUTHWEST by Madeleine Watts explores the breakdown of a marriage during a two-week road trip. Follow Lewis and Eloise's journey across the American southwest, exploring the landscapes that bear witness to the end of their relationship. simonandschuster.com/p/elegysouthweā¦

āAfterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks.ā Read from Madeleine Wattsās novel, Elegy, Southwest. lithub.com/elegy-southwest

.Madeleine Watts on the prescient genius of WG Sebaldās Rings of Saturn. lithub.com/wg-sebalds-rinā¦
We can't get enough of author Madeleine Watts's playlist for ELEGY, SOUTHWEST! open.spotify.com/playlist/01szcā¦

So grateful to have an excerpt - the very beginning - of ELEGY, SOUTHWEST published on Literary Hub lithub.com/elegy-southwest

Fantastic reflection by ā¦Madeleine Wattsā© on Sebaldās Rings of Saturn as an inspiration for her fine new novel Elegy, Southwest lithub.com/wg-sebalds-rinā¦

Really looking forward to this from Madeleine Watts Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review ā powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread Source: The Guardian search.app/hkDM

Lovely @readingsbooks notice (by head buyer Alison Huber) for Madeleine Watts's Elegy Southwest: "...sad and funny, grand and intimate, informed and inquisitive, and above all, a beautiful piece of writing." readings.com.au/product/978176ā¦

Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse. Uni of Adelaide theconversation.com/uncertainties-ā¦

Madeleine Watts (Madeleine Watts) on falling for the American Southwest and writing its obituary buff.ly/5HoSz1y


Elegy, Southwest is out in the UK today! Very grateful to everyone at Pushkin Press for guiding it into the world. I will be in London next week to launch the book at Daunt Hampstead on the 19th, and would love to see you there.


Against a backdrop of climate change, Madeleine Watts' āElegy, Southwestā (Pushkin Press) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/elegy-ā¦


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āBoth our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebodyā: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts (Madeleine Watts) minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/botā¦

it was genuinely hard to express just how brilliant Madeleine Wattsā second novel Elegy, Southwest is. I reviewed it for FT Weekend, out tomorrow. ft.com/content/8ec8fcā¦
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more about Vijay's book, as well as Madeleine Watts ' ELEGY, SOUTHWEST here: minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/botā¦

I reviewed (and loved) Madeleine Wattsā second novel, Elegy, Southwest, which is thoughtful and quietly compelling, and conjures the familiar sense of steadily trundling towards disasterā¦. In this weekās The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/the-roā¦
