Alice Austen

About The Author

Alice Austen won the John Cassavetes Award for her debut film Give Me Liberty (writer/producer). She is a past resident of the Royal Court Theatre and her internationally produced plays include Animal Farm (Steppenwolf Theatre), Water, Cherry Orchard Massacre (Vestnik Evropy), and Girls in the Boat (Dramatic Publishing). She studied creative writing under Seamus Heaney at Harvard, where she received her JD, after which she moved to Brussels and lived on Place Brugmann. Austen currently lives in Milwaukee and is working on a new film and her next novel.

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Books by Alice Austen

33 Place Brugmann

A Novel

By Alice Austen

Read by Shiromi Arserio, Jilly Bond, Nicholas Boulton, Billie Brown Fulford, Danielle Cohen, Raphael Corkhill, Matthew Lloyd Davies, James Meunier, Joshua Riley and Simon Slater

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Literary Fiction and Classics

“Wonderful reading.” —Scott Turow, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent

An extraordinarily accomplished debut novel—a love story, mystery, and philosophical puzzle, told i...

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