Peter Benson (author)

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.

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[1] "Peter Benson – About the Author", Foyles.

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

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

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1965–1970	Crumb Borne by Clive Barry (1965) The Dear Green Place by Archie Hind (1966) Winter Journey by Eva Figes (1967) A Song and a Dance by P. J. Kavanagh (1968) Poor Lazarus by Maurice Leitch (1969) When Did You Last See your Father? by Margaret Blount (1970)
1971–1980	The Big Chapel by Thomas Kilroy (1971) G by John Berger (1972) In the Country of the Skin by Peter Redgrove (1973) The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge (1974) Friends and Romans by Sylvia Clayton (1975) Falstaff by Robert Nye (1976) The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock (1977) The Murderer by Roy Heath (1978) Night in Tunisia by Neil Jordan and The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1979) A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr (1980)
1981–1990	Kepler by John Banville (1981) Where I Used to Play on the Green by Glyn Hughes (1982) Waterland by Graham Swift (1983) Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard (1984) Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd (1985) Continent by Jim Crace (1986) The Levels by Peter Benson (1987) Sweet Desserts by Lucy Ellmann (1988) Rosehill: Portrait from a Midlands City by Carol Lake (1989) Shape-Shifter by Pauline Melville (1990)
1991–1998	The Devil's Own Work by Alan Judd (1991) Poor Things by Alasdair Gray (1992) The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker (1993) Debatable Land by Candia McWilliam (1994) Heart's Journey in Winter by James Buchan (1995) Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane (1996) Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (1997) Trumpet by Jackie Kay (1998)

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