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 the Leeds Trinity University College.^[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 honors

• 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)

External links

• Official Website

References

1. ^ http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=200&menu=3
2. ^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/outloud?articleid=3009125
3. ^ http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/details.aspx?tpid=2920
4. ^ http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/departments/english/staff/Pages/Martyn%20Bedford.aspx
5. ^ http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=200&menu=3

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