Ross Raisin
Ross Raisin FRSL is a British novelist.Biography
Ross Raisin was born and brought up in Silsden, West Yorkshire, attending Bradford Grammar School. He is the author of three novels: A Natural, Waterline and God’s Own Country. His work has won and been shortlisted for over ten literary awards.
He won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award in 2009, and in 2013 was named on Granta's once a decade Best of Young British Novelists list.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
His book for the Read This series, on the practice of fiction writing: Read This if you Want to be a Great Writer was published by Laurence King Publishing in April 2018 He has written short stories for Granta, Prospect, Esquire, Dazed and Confused, the Sunday Times, BBC Radio Three and Four, and for anthologies such as: Best British Short Stories.
He lives in London with his wife and two small children.Awards and Honours
- Royal Society of Literature Fellowship
- Society of Authors Scholarship
- Granta Best of Young British Novelists list, 2013
- IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, shortlist
- Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, winner
- Authors’ Club First Novel Award, shortlist
- Betty Trask, Award winner
- Guardian First Book Award, shortlist
- Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlist
- Guildford Literary Festival First Novel Award, winner
- John Llwellyn Rhys Prize, shortlist
- Portico Prize for Literature, shortlist
