Shola von Reinhold

Shola von Reinhold is a Scottish writer of Black-German heritage. They studied at Glasgow School of Art. Lote (2020), their debut novel, follows Mathilda, a young Black woman obsessed with forgotten figures from Black European modernism, who becomes entangled in an artists' residency and the mystery of a lost poet, Hermia Druitt. Part campus satire, part queer aesthetic manifesto, part Gothic thriller, the novel is a virtuosic excavation of the whiteness of Modernism and a celebration of neglected Black aesthetes. It won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2020 and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Von Reinhold is also a visual artist and essayist whose work explores Black European aesthetics and queer sensibility.