Martyn Bedford
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist and literary critic.
Life and career
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, notably at the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.[2]
His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.[3] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.[4] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.[5]
In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.[1] 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)
References
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External links
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- 1959 births
- Living people
- English male journalists
- 21st-century English novelists
- People from Ilkley
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Academics of the University of Manchester
- People associated with Leeds Trinity University
- English male short story writers
- English short story writers
- English male novelists
- 21st-century British short story writers
- 21st-century English male writers