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Ned Beauman

Ned Beauman is the author of five novels, most recently Venomous Lumpsucker, described by the Financial Times as ‘a novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure’. He was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. His work has been translated into more than ten languages.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

On the Anxieties of Translation

Ned Beauman

Ned Beauman on his translation into Assamese, and where being named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists took him.

Art & Photography | Issue 142 padlock
Art & Photography | Issue 142 padlock

A Moveable Beast

Helge Skodvin & Ned Beauman

‘Taxidermy offers animals both a second life and a second harassment by the Anthropocene.’ Ned Beauman introduces the photography of Helge Skodvin.

Fiction | Issue 142
Fiction | Issue 142

Five Parties

Ned Beauman

‘The second year, I noticed before anyone else that the Coelophysis was trying to escape.’

Fiction | Issue 123
Fiction | Issue 123

Glow

Ned Beauman

‘Growing up, you got so used to all your secrets being sad or shameful that you came to assume they were, like alkyl halides, intrinsically neurotoxic, and now he had learned for the first time that they weren’t.’

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