Kaliane Bradley

Kaliane Mong Huxham Bradley is an English writer and editor. She is known for her debut novel The Ministry of Time (2024).

Early life and education

Kaliane Mong Huxham Bradley was born in Walthamstow, East London, to a British father and a Cambodian Khmer mother. Bradley grew up in a small house with a maternal older half-brother and younger twin sisters. The family moved out to Essex when Bradley was 10 for more space.

Bradley attended a private secondary school. She graduated from University College London (UCL) with a degree in English literature.

Career

In 2012, Bradley joined Granta magazine as an editorial assistant. She was later promoted to junior editor and commissioning editor, and worked for Granta's imprint Portobello. From 2016 to 2021, she wrote theatre and dance reviews and interviews for Exeunt Magazine, Time Out London, The Stage, and The Guardian.

Bradley won the 2022 Harper's Bazaar Short Story Competition for "Golden Years" and the VS Pritchett Short Story Prize for "Doggerland", the latter awarded by the Royal Society of Literature.

In 2023, Bradley secured a book deal with Sceptre Books, a Hodder & Stoughton imprint, in addition to translations in 13 territories and an adaptation auction between 21 production companies. Her debut novel The Ministry of Time, a time travel romance based around Franklin's lost expedition, was published in May 2024. Bradley had become inspired watching the AMC series The Terror during lockdown. Ahead of the novel's release, the BBC commissioned an adaptation penned by Alice Birch, as announced in February. The novel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.

In April 2024, Bradley stated that she was working on her next novel, which would involve a retelling of Greek mythology with a neo-noir setting.