Martyn Bedford

British novelist and literary critic (born 1959)

Novelist
literary critic

NationalityBritishAlma materUniversity of East Anglia

Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist and literary critic.

Life and career

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, notably at the Bradford Telegraph and Argus.^[2]

His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.^[3] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.^[4] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.^[5]

In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.^[1] Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.

Awards and honours

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)
Never Ending (Walker, 2014)
Twenty Questions for Gloria (Walker, 2016)

References

^ ^a ^b "Martyn Bedford". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ "Author shortlisted for top book prize". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
^ "Books Outloud - Video - Yorkshire Post". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - Authors". Retrieved 12 February 2017.
^ "Martyn Bedford - Leeds Trinity University". research.leedstrinity.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2017.