Jump to content

Ben Fergusson

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Peppyhunt (talk | contribs) at 14:44, 19 May 2021. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


Ben Fergusson (born July 12, 1980) is a writer and translator. In 2015 his debut novel The Spring of Kasper Meier (2014) won the Betty Trask Award, [1] the HWA Debut Crown,[2] and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.[3] His second and third novels, The Other Hoffmann Sister (2016) and An Honest Man (2019) completed a trilogy of novels set in the same apartment block in Berlin.[4] The latter was a book of the year in The Times,[5] the Financial Times,[6] and the Times Literary Supplement.[7] He lives in Berlin with his husband and son.[8]



References

  1. ^ Flood, Alison. "Betty Trask award goes to Ben Fergusson's 'grittily evocative' debut". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  2. ^ Onwuemezi, Natasha. "Fergusson wins Debut Crown at HWA awards". The Bookseller. The Bookseller. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. ^ Flood, Alison. "Poet Sarah Howe named young writer of the year". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  4. ^ Robson, Jeff. "An Honest Man, by Ben Fergusson, review: Secrets and lies in a gripping tale of life in the shadow of the Berlin Wall". The i Newspaper. The i Newspaper. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  5. ^ Rennison, Nick. "The best new historical fiction — lust, loyalty and breaking barriers in Cold War Berlin". The Times. The Times. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Best Books of 2019: Thrillers". The Financial Times. The Financial Times. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Books of the Year 2019". The Times Literary Supplement. The Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  8. ^ Fergusson, Ben. "'Mum's day off, is it?': what adopting as a same-sex couple taught us". The Guardian. The Guardian. Retrieved 19 May 2021.