Martyn Bedford

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Martyn Bedford
Born1959 (age 65–66)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • literary critic
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University of East Anglia

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

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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

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Martyn Bedford". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Author shortlisted for top book prize". Bradford Telegraph and Argus. 22 November 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "Books Outloud - Video - Yorkshire Post". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  4. ↑ Bloomsbury.com. "Bloomsbury - Authors". Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Martyn Bedford - Leeds Trinity University". research.leedstrinity.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2017.


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