Pip Williams

Pip Williams is an Australian writer and social researcher. She has published research, essays, memoir and the odd poem, but she is best known for her companion novels The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Since its publication in 2020, The Dictionary of Lost Words has become an international bestseller. It has won a number of major Australian book awards, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It was chosen for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club and went on to be a New York Times bestseller. As well as being adapted for stage, The Dictionary of Lost Words is being turned into a book concerto and has been optioned for a limited series. Pip's second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, won the 2024 Australian Book Industry Award for general fiction book of the year. Pip's books have been published around the world and translated into more than thirty languages.