Diana Evans

Diana Omo Evans FRSL (born 1972) is a British novelist, journalist and critic. Evans has written four full-length novels. Her debut novel 26a (2005) won the Orange Award for New Writers, the Betty Trask Award and the deciBel Writer of the Year award. Her third novel Ordinary People (2018) was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature. Her other novels include A House for Alice (2023).

As well as writing fiction, Evans contributes essays and literary criticism to the national press. She was honoured as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.