Ben Fergusson is an award-winning writer and translator. His debut novel for children, Ollie the Magnificent of Didcot Parkway, won the Action! Prize 2026 and will be published by Faber. He is also the author of three novels for adults, most recently An Honest Man (2019). His debut, The Spring of Kasper Meier (2014), won the 2015 Betty Trask Prize, the HWA Debut Crown and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. In 2022, he published his first book of non-fiction, Tales from the Fatherland. He has translated numerous texts from German by writers including Daniel Schreiber, Daniel Kehlmann and Antje Wagner, and in 2020 won a Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Metropolitan University and lives with his husband and son in South Wales.
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