Beauman, Ned

Ned Beauman was born in London in 1985 and studied philosophy at the University of Cambridge. His frst novel, Boxer, Beetle, won the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award and the Goldberg Prize; his second, The Teleportation Accident, was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and won the Encore Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. In 2013, he was the youngest on Granta s once-a-decade list of the Best Young British Novelists.