Martyn Bedford
Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British author. He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.[1]
The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford's writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers. His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.[2] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.[3] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.[4]
In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.[5] Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire with his wife and two daughters.
Awards and honours
- 2011: Costa Book Awards, shortlist, Flip
Bibliography
- Acts of Revision (Doubleday, 1996)
- Exit, Orange & Red (Bantam, 1997)
- The Houdini Girl (Random House, 1999)
- Black Cat (Viking, 2000)
- The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam (digital narrative, 2000)
- The Island of Lost Souls (Bloomsbury, 2006)
- Flip (Walker, 2011)
- Never Ending (Walker, 2014)
- Twenty Questions for Gloria (Walker, 2016)
External links
References
- ↑ http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=200&menu=3
- ↑ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/outloud?articleid=3009125
- ↑ http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/details.aspx?tpid=2920
- ↑ http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/departments/english/staff/Pages/Martyn%20Bedford.aspx
- ↑ http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=200&menu=3
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