Ben Rice

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Biography

Ben Rice was born in Devon in 1972. He studied English at the universities of Newcastle and Oxford before undertaking a Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia.

His novella Pobby and Dingan (2000) was shortlisted for the 2001 Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and won the Somerset Maugham Award 2000. It is about a boy's search for his sister's missing imaginary friends, and is set in an opal mining community in the Australian outback. It has been described as ' ... an enormously touching, imaginative and unexpected novel that ... glows in your hands.' (Jeff Giles, The New York Times Book Review)

Ben Rice lives in London and in 2003 was named by Granta magazine as one of twenty 'Best of Young British Novelists'.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Fiction

Bibliography

Pobby and Dingan   Cape, 2000

Etiquette   Faber and Faber, 2008

Read about books by Ben Rice at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

Buy books by Ben Rice at Amazon.co.uk

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Prizes and awards

2000   Somerset Maugham Award   Pobby and Dingan

2001   Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize   (shortlist)   Pobby and Dingan

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Jonathan Cape Ltd Random House UK Ltd 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London  SW1V 2SA England Tel: +44 (0)20 7840 8539 Fax: +44 (0)20 7932 0077 http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/

Agent David Godwin Associates 55 Monmouth Street London  WC2H 9DG England Tel: +44 (0)20 7240 9992 Fax: +44 (0)20 7395 6110 E-mail: assistant@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk www.davidgodwinassociates.co.uk

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