By Kevin Duffy • Published 28th June 2013
Ben Myers, author of PIG IRON, which we published May 2012, has been awarded the top award for fiction from New Writing North. The judge for the fiction prize, award winning author and recently seen on The Granta best of British young writers, Sarah Hall says Ben’s new novel, THE BAIRN is:
Quite simply. Excellent.
This is thoroughly deserved, as Ben is one of the best writers in the UK and highlights how great new writing just doesn’t have to come from the Sarf, or Oxbridge and that you don’t need to own a linen suit, wear comfortable brogues and swan around literary festivals talking about how much of the literary canon you read before you were eight.
Click on the links and see Ben in a tie. When he’s not collecting award he’s either writing or swimming in reservoirs on top of the Pennines.
