Ned Beauman

Ned Beauman (born 1985) is a British novelist, journalist and screenwriter. The author of five novels, he was selected as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta magazine in 2013. He attended Winchester College and studied philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. His influences include Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Chandler and John Updike, along with more recent writers such as Michael Chabon, William Gibson and David Foster Wallace. All of his novels are published in the UK by Sceptre. In addition to novels, he has contributed journalism and literary criticism to The Guardian, The White Review, the London Review of Books, Cabinet and Fantastic Man.

Awards and honours 2011: Desmond Elliott Prize shortlist for Boxer, Beetle 2011: National Jewish Book Award winner in Debut Fiction for Boxer, Beetle 2012: Guardian First Book Award shortlist for Boxer, Beetle 2012: Man Booker Prize longlist for The Teleportation Accident 2012: Encore Award winner for The Teleportation Accident 2013: Somerset Maugham Award winner for The Teleportation Accident 2013: Granta list of 20 best young writers 2023: Arthur C. Clarke Award winner for Venomous Lumpsucker

Works 2010: Boxer, Beetle 2012: The Teleportation Accident 2014: Glow 2017: Madness Is Better Than Defeat 2022: Venomous Lumpsucker 2025: The Captive (as Kit Burgoyne)