Benjamin Wood

Novelist

Benjamin Wood’s fifth novel, Seascraper, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2025 and won the Nero Book Award for Fiction and the Winston Graham Historical Prize. He has taught fiction and developed creative writing programmes as a senior lecturer at King’s College London and Birkbeck, University of London for the past twenty years. His books have been shortlisted for various prizes, including the Costa First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Book Prize, the RSL Encore Award, the CWA Gold Dagger Award, and the European Union Prize for Literature. He was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of Year in 2016 for his second novel, The Ecliptic.