Ben Fergusson

Overview

I am the author of the novels The Spring of Kasper Meier (2014), The Other Hoffmann Sister (2017) and An Honest Man (2019). My debut novel won the 2015 Betty Trask Prize, the HWA Debut Crown and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. In 2022, I published my first book of non-fiction, Tales from the Fatherland, an exploration of fatherhood and same-sex parenting. My short fiction has been published in a range of journals internationally. I am also a literary translator from German, and in 2020 won a Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation.

I teach across the undergraduate and postgraduate Creative Writing programmes at Cardiff Met. I have a BA in English Literature from Warwick University, and an MA in Modern Languages from the University of Bristol, and am about to complete my PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia.

You can find out more about my writing at www.benfergusson.com.

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