Peter Hobbs (novelist)
Peter Hobbs is a British novelist.
He grew up in Cornwall and North Yorkshire and was educated at New College, Oxford. He began writing during a prolonged illness that cut short a potential diplomatic career.
He is the author of two novels: The Short Day Dying and In the Orchard, the Swallows, and of I Could Ride All Day in my Cool Blue Train, a book of short stories. He is also published in New Writing 13, an annual anthology of new work, and 'Zembla'. He is currently a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story, where he inspires young writers to write short stories and poems which are published in a yearly anthology.
The Short Day Dying was short listed for the 2005 Whitbread First Book Award, the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the 2007 International Dublin Literary Award and won a 2006 Betty Trask Award.
