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Ben Myers was born on 10 January, 1976 in Durham, County Durham, England, is a British writer and journalist. Discover Ben Myers's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 48 years old?

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Occupation Writer and journalist
Age 48 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January, 1976
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace Durham, County Durham, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1976

Benjamin Myers (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist.

Myers grew up in Belmont, County Durham, and was a pupil at the estate's local comprehensive school where he become interested in reading and skateboarding.

1990

Myers attended his first concert in Durham in March 1990, when he was fourteen.

It led to him forming the punk rock band Sour Face the next year.

The band quickly became involved in the Durham hardcore punk scene.

Despite being one of the few bands in the scene that was not straight edge, Sour Face became the mascots, with their third performance seeing them open for NOFX.

1991

Voorhees' first performance was opening for Sour Face in September 1991.

As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly Melody Maker.

1997

In 1997 he became their staff writer while residing in the Oval Mansions squat for several years.

2010

It was published by Picador in October 2010, and polarised critical opinion.

2011

In 2011 he published an article, about his brief time as an intern at News of the World.

He has spoken about failing English Literature at A-level and being rejected by "more than a hundred" universities before being accepted by the University of Bedfordshire (formerly Luton University).

As a journalist, Myers has written about literature, music and the arts for a number of publications including New Statesman, Mojo, The Guardian, NME, The Spectator, BBC, New Scientist, Alternative Press, Kerrang!, Plan B, Arena, Bizarre, The Quietus, Vice, Shortlist, Caught by the River, Metal Hammer, The Morning Star, Classic Rock, 3:AM Magazine, Mineshaft and Time Out.

Myers' books span literary fiction, nature/landscape writing, crime, historical fiction and poetry.

He has been translated into eight languages.

He has published several poetry collections and written a number of music biographies which have been widely translated.

He is a founding member of the Brutalists, a literary collective including authors Adelle Stripe and Tony O'Neill.

His second novel, Richard: A Novel, was a fictionalized account of the life of musician Richey Edwards.

2012

Pig Iron (2012) was set in the traveller/gypsy community of the northeast of England and was the first to be published under his full name Benjamin Myers.

Published by Bluemoose Books, it won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and was longlisted for 3:AM Magazine.com's 'Novels of the Year' and runner-up in The Guardian's 'Not The Booker Prize', in the same year.

2014

In 2014 Myers won the Society of Authors Tom-Gallon Trust Award for his short story, 'The Folk Song Singer'.

His novel Beastings (2014) won the Portico Prize For Literature and the Northern Writers' Award.

It was also longlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.

2015

His poem 'The Path To Pendle Hill' was selected by New Statesman as one of its Poems Of The Year 2015 and work from the same collection were read by Myers on BBC1 programme Countryfile.

2017

Myers' novel The Gallows Pole (2017), based on the true story of the Cragg Vale Coiners, received a Roger Deakin Award and won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.

As part of the prize, both author and book title appeared as the official Royal Mail franking stamp for a week on an estimated 60 million pieces of mail.

It was released by Third Man Books, part of Third Man Records in the US and Canada.

In 2021 the BBC announced an adaptation of the novel by director Shane Meadows.

It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 31 May 2023.

2018

In late 2018 it was reported he had signed to Bloomsbury Publishing.

The deal was satirised in the 'Books & Bookmen' column in Private Eye.

Cuddy, his eighth novel, combines poetry, prose, play, diary and real historical accounts of the story and legacy of St. Cuthbert and his connection to Durham Cathedral.

Myers lives in the Calder Valley with his wife, the author Adelle Stripe.

He was runner-up in the same prize in 2018 for his story 'A Thousand Acres Of English Soil'.

2019

His novel The Offing (2019) featured on Radio 4's Book At Bedtime, was a Radio 2 Book Club choice and was chosen as a book of the year in The Times.

The audiobook was narrated by actor Ralph Ineson.

A stage version of the The Offing was produced in Scarborough and Newcastle in 2021, and it was announced in 2023 that a film would be produced of the novel starring Helena Bonham Carter and directed by Jessica Hobbs.

In 2019 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from York St John University.

Myers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

He was awarded the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize for his novel, Cuddy, which was described by the judges as "a book of remarkable range, virtuosity and creative daring.”