Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks (2014)

Ben Brooks (born 1992 in Gloucestershire , United Kingdom ) is a British writer .

Life

Brooks has written more than six novels and three non-fiction books so far (as of summer 2018). He published his first novel Fences at the age of 17 . His novels often deal with the problems of young people, alcohol, drugs, sex, lovesickness and the Internet. It is sometimes warned that his books contain gross expressions and are not suitable for minors. Brooks has been influenced by writers such as Tao Lin , Howard Buten , Noah Cicero , Kurt Vonnegut , Chris Killen , Socrates Adams , John Scalzi . He has lived in Gloucester , Barcelona , Tiana and London and currently lives in Berlin . His book Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different about role models for boys is among other things. a. has been translated into German, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Czech.

Prizes and awards

• 2012 - Nomination for the Dylan Thomas Prize
• Nomination for the Pushcart Prize
• 2014 - Winner of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize for Lolito
• 2015 - Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award for Lolito
• 2018 - British National Book Award as "Children's Book of the Year" for Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different

Works

Novels

• Fences . Fugue State Press 2009 ISBN 978-1-879-19320-8
• On Island of Fifty . Mud Luscious Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-983-02634-1
• The Kasahara School of Nihilism . Fugue State Press 2010, ISBN 978-1-879-19322-2
• Grow up . Canongate Books 2011 ISBN 978-0-857-86187-0
  • We grow up at night Berlin Verlag 2012 German translation by Jörg Albrecht ISBN 978-3-827-01061-2
• Upward Coast and Sadie . Mud Luscious Press 2012
• Lolito . Canongate Books 2013, ISBN 978-1-782-11158-0
  • German translation Lolito . Atrium Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-855-35055-1 Dt. by Britt Somann
  • Audiobook Lolito . Atrium Zurich 2015, Ger. by Britt Somann, Christian Ulmen (speaker), ISBN 978-3-855-35056-8
• Everyone Gets Eaten . Civil Coping Mechanisms 2015, ISBN 978-1-937-86551-1
• Hurray . Blackie Books 2016, Language: Spanish, ISBN 978-8-416-29052-9
• Dasha - un poema de amor . Blackie Books 2018, Language: Spanish and English, ISBN 978-8-417-05965-1
• The Impossible Boy . Quercus Children's Books 2019, ISBN 978-1-786-54099-7

Non-fiction

• Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different . Quercus Publishing 2018, ISBN 978-1-787-47198-6
  • German translation: Stories for Boys who dare to be different - On the courage to be different . Children's book Loewe Verlag 2018, Quinton Winter (illustrator), Ulrich Thiele (translator), Anja Seelow (translator), Bea Reiter (translator), Heinrich Koop (translator), Franca Fritz (translator), ISBN 978-3-7432-0259- 7th
  • eBook in German ISBN 978-3-7320-1269-5
• Stories for Kids Who Dare to be Different . Quercus Publishing 2018, ISBN 978-1-787-47652-3
  • German translation: Stories for Kids Who Dare to be Different - On the courage to be different . Loewe Verlag , 2019, Quinton Winter (Illustrator), Ulrich Thiele (Translator), Bea Reiter (Translator), Ann Lecker (Translator), Franca Fritz (Translator), Heinrich Koop (Translator), ISBN 978-3-7432-0421- 8th
• Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different 2 . Quercus Publishing 2019, ISBN 978-1-787-47654-7
  • German translation: More Stories for Kids Who Dare to be Different - Stories that will change your life . Loewe Verlag , 2019, Quinton Winter (Illustrator), Ulrich Thiele (Translator), Bea Reiter (Translator), Ann Lecker (Translator), Franca Fritz (Translator), Heinrich Koop (Translator), ISBN 978-3-7432-0463- 8th

• • German translation: Legends Alphabet - Girls who have changed the world: ABC book with famous personalities, gift book to strengthen the personality , Loewe Verlag , 2020, Quinton Winter (illustrator), Ulrich Thiele (translator), ISBN 978-3- 7432-0639-7

• • German translation: Legends alphabet - boys who have gone their own way: ABC book with famous personalities, gift book to strengthen the personality , Loewe Verlag , 2020, Quinton Winter (illustrator), Ulrich Thiele (translator), ISBN 978-3 -7432-0640-3
• Things They Don't Want You to Know - How to raise a 21st century teenager . Quercus (June 25, 2020), ISBN 978-1-5294-0394-7

Stories

• Summer / Autumn in: Vice , September 24, 2013
• Indestructible Everything in: Dazed & Confused, January 2, 2014
• Kimchi in Frank Ocean (Ed.) Boys Don't Cry 2016

Web links

• Ben Brooks at twitter.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview by Elizabeth Rowe, July 28, 2015 for bookish https://www.bookish.com/articles/ben-brooks-on-lolita-lolito-and-anxiety-about-the-internet/
2. ↑ Interview by Declan Tan, November 28th, 9th, 2011 for 3: am Magazine https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/everythings-weird/
3. ↑ Dylan Thomas Prize 2012 longlist unveiled with two youngest ever entrants , accessed on July 26, 2019.
4. ↑ https://canongate.co.uk/contributors/8349-ben-brooks/
5. ↑ https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781787476523