
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/elegysouthwe…

“Afterwards, you told me it was part of what you loved most about those weeks.” Read from Madeleine Watts’s novel, Elegy, Southwest. lithub.com/elegy-southwest

.Madeleine Watts on the prescient genius of WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. lithub.com/wg-sebalds-rin…
We can't get enough of author Madeleine Watts's playlist for ELEGY, SOUTHWEST! open.spotify.com/playlist/01szc…

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

Fantastic reflection by Madeleine Watts on Sebald’s Rings of Saturn as an inspiration for her fine new novel Elegy, Southwest lithub.com/wg-sebalds-rin…

Really looking forward to this from Madeleine Watts Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review – 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/978176…

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-…

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' ‘Elegy, Southwest’ (Pushkin Press) is a lament for a world, a relationship, and the American road-trip novel, writes Abi Andrews caughtbytheriver.net/2025/03/elegy-…


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“Both our novels interrogate the juxtaposition or paradox of being on the road with somebody”: A Conversation between Vijay Khurana and Madeleine Watts (Madeleine Watts) minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/bot…

it was genuinely hard to express just how brilliant Madeleine Watts’ second novel Elegy, Southwest is. I reviewed it for FT Weekend, out tomorrow. ft.com/content/8ec8fc…
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more about Vijay's book, as well as Madeleine Watts ' ELEGY, SOUTHWEST here: minorliteratures.com/2025/04/01/bot…

I reviewed (and loved) Madeleine Watts’ second novel, Elegy, Southwest, which is thoughtful and quietly compelling, and conjures the familiar sense of steadily trundling towards disaster…. In this week’s The Spectator spectator.co.uk/article/the-ro…
