Myers’ short story ‘The Folk Song Singer’ was awarded the Tom-Gallon Prize in 2014 by the Society Of Authors and published by Galley Beggar Press. A controversial combination of biography and novel, Richard (2010) was a bestseller and chosen as a Sunday Times book of the year. Pig Iron (2012) was the winner of the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and runner-up in The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize. Widely acclaimed, it featured on several end of year lists, and was chosen by Robert Macfarlane in The Big Issue as one of his books of 2014. His novel Beastings (2014) won the Portico Prize For Literature, was the recipient of the Northern Writers’ Award and longlisted for a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award 2015. A sequel These Darkening Days followed in 2017. Turning Blue (2016) was described as a 'folk crime' novel, and praised by writers including Val McDermid. Several of Myers' novels have been released as audiobooks, read by actor Ralph Ineson. The Gallows Pole was re-issued by Bloomsbury, alongside previous titles Beastings and Pig Iron.

It has been published in the US by Third Man Books and is currently in development for screen adaptation. Recipient of the Roger Deakin Award and first published by Bluemoose Books, Myers' novel The Gallows Pole was published to acclaim in 2017 and was winner of the Walter Scott Prize 2018 - the world's largest prize for historical fiction. The non-fiction book Under The Rock, was shortlisted for The Portico Prize For Literature in 2020. It is being developed for stage and has been optioned for film. It was serialised by Radio 4's Book At Bedtime and Radio 2 Book club choice. His novel The Offing was published by Bloomsbury in 2019 and is a best-seller in Germany. His first short story collection, Male Tears, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2021. He is an award-winning author and journalist. Benjamin Myers was born in Durham, UK, in 1976.

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