Sam Byers

Sam Byers
Born1979
OccupationNovelist
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
Notable awardsBetty Trask Award (2014)
Website
www.sambyers.co.uk

Sam Byers (born 1979) is a British novelist.[1] He was born in Bury St Edmunds and now lives in Norwich, where he studied at the University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing, 2004; PhD, 2014).[2]

Byers' debut novel Idiopathy, a satire based on the spread of a BSE-like disease,[3] received a Betty Trask Award and the Waterstones 11 prize. Idiopathy was also shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Book Awards First Novel award, and longlisted for the 2014 Desmond Elliott Prize.

In 2018 Byers published his second novel, Perfidious Albion, "a new media satire that switches into a hi-tech dystopia centred on class politics."[4]

In 2021 he published his third novel, Come Join Our Disease.[5]

Awards

Bibliography

  • Idiopathy (2013)
  • Perfidious Albion (2018)
  • Come Join Our Disease (2021)

References

  1. ^ "Waterstones 11: Interview with Sam Byers". The Daily Telegraph. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ^ "Creative Writing alumni A-C and published works". University of East Anglia.
  3. ^ Kappala-Ramsamy, Gemma (21 April 2013). "Debut author: Sam Byers". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  4. ^ Cummins, Anthony (29 July 2018). "Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  5. ^ Myerson, Jonathan (5 April 2021). "Come Join Our Disease by Sam Byers review – gloriously nauseating". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 April 2024.


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