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Peter Benson (author)

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Peter Benson (born 1956)^[1] is the author of novels, plays, short stories and poetry, and has been described by the London Evening Standard as having "one of the most distinctive voices in modern British fiction".

Career[edit]

He has won a number of prizes for his work, including The Guardian Fiction Prize, The Encore Award and The Somerset Maugham Award, and was awarded a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship in 1994.^[2]

Personal life[edit]

Benson is father to a daughter, Ella (born 1995), by poet Carol Ann Duffy who was in a relationship with novelist and poet Jackie Kay.^[3]

Bibliography[edit]

Novels[edit]

1987, The Levels (Constable, Penguin)
1989, A Lesser Dependency (Macmillan, Penguin)
1990, The Other Occupant (Macmillan, Penguin)
1993, Odo's Hanging (Hodder & Stoughton)
1994, Riptide (Hodder & Stoughton)
1995, A Private Moon (Hodder & Stoughton)
1997, The Shape of Clouds (Hodder & Stoughton)
2011, Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke (Alma Books)
2012, Isabel's Skin (Alma Books)
2017, The South in Winter (Alma Books)
2020, The Stromness Dinner (Seren)
2022, Kidnap Fury of the Smoking Lovers (Seren)

Plays[edit]

2013, The Two Friends with Alessandro Gallenzi (Calder Publications)

Short stories[edit]

1987, Jude: Winter's Tales 3 (Constable)
1988, Alan: Winter's Tales 4 (Constable)
1988, Rajastan, 1987: 20 Under 35 (Picador)
1990, Gates of Swimming: Winter's Tales 6 (Constable)
2000, Dominion: New Writing 9 (Vintage)

Awards[edit]

The Levels - Winner, The Guardian Fiction Prize
The Levels - Winner, The Author's Club First Novel Award
The Levels - Winner, The Betty Trask Prize
The Levels - Shortlisted, The Whitbread Book Award
The Levels - Shortlisted, The Premio Letterario Chianti
A Lesser Dependency - Winner, The Encore Award
The Other Occupant - Winner, The Somerset Maugham Award
Society of Authors - Awarded, Travelling Scholarship 1994
Two Cows and a Vanful of Smoke - Selected, Fiction Uncovered 2012

References[edit]

^ "Peter Benson – About the Author", Foyles.

^ Christian House, "Peter Benson: A trip down Watery Lane", The Independent, 19 August 2012.

^ Preston, John (11 May 2010). "Carol Ann Duffy interview". Retrieved 16 February 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.

v t e The Guardian'sGuardian Fiction Prize
1965–1970	Crumb BornebyClive Barry (1965) The Dear Green PlacebyArchie Hind (1966) Winter JourneybyEva Figes (1967) A Song and a DancebyP. J. Kavanagh (1968) Poor LazarusbyMaurice Leitch (1969) When Did You Last See your Father?byMargaret Blount (1970)
1971–1980	The Big ChapelbyThomas Kilroy (1971) GbyJohn Berger (1972) In the Country of the SkinbyPeter Redgrove (1973) The Bottle Factory OutingbyBeryl Bainbridge (1974) Friends and RomansbySylvia Clayton (1975) FalstaffbyRobert Nye (1976) The Condition of MuzakbyMichael Moorcock (1977) The MurdererbyRoy Heath (1978) Night in TunisiabyNeil Jordan and The House of HungerbyDambudzo Marechera (1979) A Month in the CountrybyJ. L. Carr (1980)
1981–1990	KeplerbyJohn Banville (1981) Where I Used to Play on the GreenbyGlyn Hughes (1982) WaterlandbyGraham Swift (1983) Empire of the SunbyJ. G. Ballard (1984) HawksmoorbyPeter Ackroyd (1985) ContinentbyJim Crace (1986) The LevelsbyPeter Benson (1987) Sweet DessertsbyLucy Ellmann (1988) Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands CitybyCarol Lake (1989) Shape-ShifterbyPauline Melville (1990)
1991–1998	The Devil's Own WorkbyAlan Judd (1991) Poor ThingsbyAlasdair Gray (1992) The Eye in the DoorbyPat Barker (1993) Debatable LandbyCandia McWilliam (1994) Heart's Journey in WinterbyJames Buchan (1995) Reading in the DarkbySeamus Deane (1996) Fugitive PiecesbyAnne Michaels (1997) TrumpetbyJackie Kay (1998)

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