Ben Markovits

Ben Markovits

Professor

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Personal profile

Personal profile

Benjamin Markovits, BA (Yale), MPhil (Oxford) has published twelve novels, The Syme Papers (Faber, 2004), Either Side of Winter (Faber, 2005), Imposture (Faber, 2007), A Quiet Adjustment (Faber, 2008), Playing Days (Faber, 2010)  Childish Loves (Faber, 2011), You Don't Have to Live Like This (Faber, 2015), A Weekend in New York (Faber, 2018), Christmas in Austin (Faber, 2019), Home Games (Harper, 2020), The Sidekick (Faber, 2021). Imposture, A Quiet Adjustment and Childish Loves make up a trilogy of novels about Lord Byron. He was awarded a fellowship to the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies in 2009, and won a Pushcart Prize for his short story 'Another, Sad, Bizarre Chapter in Human History'. In 2015 he was awarded an Eccles Centre Fellowship from the British Library and won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction (for You Don't Have to Live Like This.) In 2017, his short story 'The Collector' was shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award. He has published essays, stories, poetry and reviews on subjects ranging from the Romantics to American sports in The Guardian, Granta, The Paris Review, and The New York Times, among other publications, and has served as a judge on several literary prizes, including the BBC National Short Story Award, and the Wingate Prize (2023). His new novel, The Rest of Our Lives, will be published by Faber 2025.

Keywords

  • contemporary fiction, historical novel, Byron, practical criticism, post-modernism, memoir