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Ned Beauman


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Ned Beauman’s debut novel, Boxer, Beetle was published in 2010. It was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Desmond Elliot prize, and winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Fiction Book. He went on to be named by BBC2’s Culture Show as one of their 12 Best New British Writers in 2011.Ned Beauman was born in the UK and lives in London. He has written for Dazed & Confused, AnOther and the Guardian.
 

Awards: Arthur C. Clarke (2023), RSL (2012)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Boxer, Beetle (2010)
   The Teleportation Accident (2012)
   Glow (2014)
   Madness Is Better Than Defeat (2017)
   Venomous Lumpsucker (2022)
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Ned Beauman recommends
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Underjungle (2023)
James Sturz
"Not many of us would have the audacity to write a novel where the only human character is a corpse decomposing on the ocean floor, but in Underjungle James Sturz has met this challenge in dazzling fashion. To get a more intimate view of the world under the waves you'd probably have to become fish food yourself, so instead I recommend this profound and unclassifiable novel, a mind-expanding Aeneid of the seas."
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Daughters of the Wild (2020)
Natalka Burian
"With utter believability Daughters of the Wild brings to life a whole kingdom of grimy, shamanist Virginia Gothic that exists just a short hitchhike away from our contemporary world. Keep your wits about you as you step across the border - but don't delay too long, because revolution is already stirring in Natalka Burian's spellbinding debut."
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The Last Kings of Sark (2013)
Rosa Rankin-Gee
"Funny, vivid, bittersweet."

Books containing stories by Ned Beauman
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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection (2016)
(Year's Best Science Fiction, book 33)
edited by
Gardner Dozois
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Twelve Tomorrows 2016 (2015)
(Twelve Tomorrows)
edited by
Bruce Sterling

Awards
2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award : Venomous Lumpsucker
2013 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
2012 Encore Award : The Teleportation Accident

Award nominations
2012 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Teleportation Accident
2011 Desmond Elliott Prize (nominee) : Boxer, Beetle


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