Ross Raisin
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1979 (age 46–47)
Ross Raisin | |
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| Born | Ross Radford Raisin 1979 (age 46–47) Silsden, Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Alma mater | King's College London Goldsmiths, University of London |
| Notable works | God's Own Country, Waterline, A Natural |
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Ross Raisin FRSL (born 1979) is a British novelist and short story writer.[1]
Ross Raisin was born and brought up in Silsden, West Yorkshire.[2] He attended Bradford Grammar School then King's College London, where he studied English.[3][4] He then studied for the MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, while working as a trainee manager in a wine bar.[4]
He is the author of four novels: A Hunger (2022), A Natural (2017), Waterline (2011) and God's Own Country (2008).
Raisin won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award in 2009, and in 2013 was named on Granta's once-a-decade Best of Young British Novelists list, for writers under the age of 40.[5]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.[1]
His book for the Read This series, on the practice of fiction writing, Read This if you Want to be a Great Writer, was published by Laurence King Publishing in April 2018. [6]
He has written short stories for Granta, Prospect, Esquire, Dazed and Confused, the Sunday Times, BBC Radio Three and Four, and for anthologies such as Best British Short Stories (Salt, 2013).[7] He won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2024 for his story Ghost Kitchen.[8]
He lives in London with his wife and two children.
