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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Ben Myers or Benjamin Myers (born 1976, Durham) is an English writer.Myers' most recent novel, Beastings, was published in 2014. It won the Northern Writers' Award and was longlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.Pig Iron (2012) was the first to be published under his full name Benjamin Myers. It won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and was longlisted for 3:AM Magazine.com's 'Novels of the Year' and runner-up in The Guardian's 'Not The Booker Prize', in the same year.In 2014 Myers won the Society of Author's Tom-Gallon Prize, for his short story, The Folk Song Singer. Myers' second novel, Richard: A Novel, was published by Picador in October 2010, and polarised critical opinion. His first novel The Book of Fuck, a fictionalised account about a hapless music journalist, was published to underground acclaim in 2004 through Wrecking Ball Press. It was published in Italian in 2005. As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly Melody Maker. In 1997 he became their staff writer. As of 2013 he has written about literature, music and the arts for a number of publications including New Statesman, Mojo, The Guardian, NME, New Scientist, Alternative Press, Kerrang!, Plan B, Arena, Bizarre, The Quietus, Vice, Shortlist, Caught by the River, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, 3:AM Magazine, Mineshaft and Time Out. In 2011 he published an article, about his brief time as an intern at News of the World.Myers has also published several poetry collections and written a number of music biographies which have been widely translated. He is a founding member of the Brutalists, a literary collective including authors Adelle Stripe and Tony O'Neill, and widely acknowledged as the first literary movement to be launched by social networking sites."@en }

• Ben_Myers abstract "Ben Myers or Benjamin Myers (born 1976, Durham) is an English writer.Myers' most recent novel, Beastings, was published in 2014. It won the Northern Writers' Award and was longlisted for the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize.Pig Iron (2012) was the first to be published under his full name Benjamin Myers. It won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and was longlisted for 3:AM Magazine.com's 'Novels of the Year' and runner-up in The Guardian's 'Not The Booker Prize', in the same year.In 2014 Myers won the Society of Author's Tom-Gallon Prize, for his short story, The Folk Song Singer. Myers' second novel, Richard: A Novel, was published by Picador in October 2010, and polarised critical opinion. His first novel The Book of Fuck, a fictionalised account about a hapless music journalist, was published to underground acclaim in 2004 through Wrecking Ball Press. It was published in Italian in 2005. As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly Melody Maker. In 1997 he became their staff writer. As of 2013 he has written about literature, music and the arts for a number of publications including New Statesman, Mojo, The Guardian, NME, New Scientist, Alternative Press, Kerrang!, Plan B, Arena, Bizarre, The Quietus, Vice, Shortlist, Caught by the River, Metal Hammer, Classic Rock, 3:AM Magazine, Mineshaft and Time Out. In 2011 he published an article, about his brief time as an intern at News of the World.Myers has also published several poetry collections and written a number of music biographies which have been widely translated. He is a founding member of the Brutalists, a literary collective including authors Adelle Stripe and Tony O'Neill, and widely acknowledged as the first literary movement to be launched by social networking sites.".