Annabel Nugent

Features Writer and Commissioning Editor

Annabel Nugent is a Features Writer and Commissioning Editor at The Independent, covering music, TV and film. She reguarly interviews Hollywood's biggest stars and reviews music's most talked-about concerts and releases. She first joined The Independent in 2020 as a culture reporter

<p>‘Anger can make you self-immolate, but energy drives creativity’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Bernardine Evaristo: ‘A Black woman hasn’t won the Booker since me’

The author of ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, who won the top literary prize in 2019, talks to Annabel Nugent about the moment in her career that made the world take notice, why she is channelling rage into energy, and her novel ‘Mr Loverman’ being adapted for the BBC

<p>Ilana Glazer: ‘I’ve been told my whole career my work is political’ </p>
The Saturday Interview

Ilana Glazer on being a non-binary woman: ‘Femininity felt like drag’

The actor poured the hilarious, personal details of pregnancy into her new film ‘Babes’. Now she sits down with Annabel Nugent to talk about having her work downplayed on ‘Broad City’, why she chooses to lead with comedy over identity politics, and what it means for her to come out as a non-binary woman

The Saturday Interview

Ilana Glazer on being a non-binary woman: ‘Femininity felt like drag’

The actor poured the hilarious, personal details of pregnancy into her new film ‘Babes’. Now she sits down with Annabel Nugent to talk about having her work downplayed on ‘Broad City’, why she chooses to lead with comedy over identity politics, and what it means for her to come out as a non-binary woman

<p>Ilana Glazer: ‘I’ve been told my whole career my work is political’ </p>
<p>‘I never want to make someone upset with something I’ve written but also at the same time, you can’t just be nicey-nicey at the cost of writing arresting, honest music’ </p>
Interview

Marika Hackman: ‘Even before I came out, my lyrics were all super gay’

Since putting out her electro-folk debut in 2015, Marika Hackman has thrown out curve ball after curve ball with her shape-shifting sound and lyrical boldness. She meets Annabel Nugent down at the pub to chat so-called ‘songstresses’, secret crushes, and the golden rule for dating a musician

Interview

Marika Hackman: ‘Even before I came out, my lyrics were all super gay’

Since putting out her electro-folk debut in 2015, Marika Hackman has thrown out curve ball after curve ball with her shape-shifting sound and lyrical boldness. She meets Annabel Nugent down at the pub to chat so-called ‘songstresses’, secret crushes, and the golden rule for dating a musician

<p>‘I never want to make someone upset with something I’ve written but also at the same time, you can’t just be nicey-nicey at the cost of writing arresting, honest music’ </p>

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