Ben Rice

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Ben Rice

Ben Rice (* 1972 in Tiverton , Devon ) is an English writer.

Life

Ben Rice grew up in Devon. He attended Blundell's School in Tiverton, then studied English literature at Newcastle University and Wadham College of Oxford University . He attended the Creative Writing Course at the University of East Anglia in Norwich .

His partner is from Lightning Ridge , Australia. Ben Rice lived in London after his studies and now works as an English teacher in Australia.

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His novella Pobby and Dingan was first published in 2000 in the British literary magazine Granta. A hardback was published in the same year by the London publisher Jonathan Cape and in the United States by Knopf a few months later . A paperback edition was published in 2002 along with the short story Specks in the Sky , which first appeared in The New Yorker , in 2002 by Vintage. Pobby and Dingan is set in Lightning Ridge, a small impoverished Australian town in New South Wales that was formed because of a nearby opal field . A girl loses her two fantasy friends , which upsets life in her family and the city.

Translations of the novella have appeared in Germany ( Pobby and Dingan , translation Giovanni and Ditte Bandini ), France ( Pobby et Dingan , translation Sabine Porte), the Netherlands ( Pobby en Dingan , translation Tinke Davids ), Poland ( Pobby i Dingan , translation Lech Jęczmyk), Portugal ( Pobby e Dingan , translation José Lima), Romania ( Pobby şi Dingan , translation Dan Ciobanu) and Spain ( Pobby i Dingan , translation Eduard Castaño Montserrat).

Pobby and Dingan was filmed by Peter Cattaneo and was released as Opal Dream in 2006 with good reviews . One of his short stories, Look at Me I'm Beautiful , was also filmed in 2005 by Paul Gay . Rice was also involved in the films as a screenwriter .

Granta listed Ben Rice as one of the top 20 young British novelists in 2003.

A novel by Rice, also set in Australia, called Etiquette, was announced by Faber & Faber for 2008. Although an ISBN has already been published here , the book was never published.

Works

  • Pobby and Dingan . Jonathan Cape, London 2000, ISBN 978-0-224-06110-0 .
    • German-language edition: Pobby and Dingan . Translated by Giovanni and Ditte Bandini. Goldmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-442-30921-2 .
  • Bacon in the Sky . Vintage, London 2002, ISBN 978-0-09-928562-5 . (first appeared in The New Yorker, 2001)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of the author in Granta 81: Best Of Young British Novelists 3 (English)
  2. ↑ Opal Dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Look at Me I'm Beautiful in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ ISBN 9780571231744 .
  5. ↑ Winner of the Somerset Maugham Awards (English)
  6. ↑ Lufti award round spring 2005
personal data
SURNAME Rice, Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiverton