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Andrew Cowan

 

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Biography

 

Andrew lives in Norwich with the writer Lynne Bryan and their daughter Rose. He was a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at UEA twice and is now a full-time lecturer in creative writing at UEA. Before his success as a novelist he worked as a postman, offset litho printer, cleaner in a cake factory and school librarian.

His début novel, Pig, won a Betty Trask Award, the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Prize, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize.

 

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