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Ben Rice

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January 01, 1972 in Tiverton, Devon, The United Kingdom

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Ben Rice (born 1972), is a prize-winning British author.

Rice was born in Tiverton, Devon, educated at Blundell's School and read English literature at Newcastle University and then Wadham College, Oxford, before studying Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

His novel Pobby and Dingan (later filmed as Opal Dream) was awarded the Somerset Maugham Award in 2001 (as well as being shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), and in 2003 Granta named him as one of their twenty "Best of Young British Novelists". Pobby and Dingan is a short story about a small girl, her two imaginary friends, and her older brother who gradually learns that just because one can't see something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Disguised as a children's...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 534 ratings · 93 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Pobby and Dingan 3.86 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2000 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Opal Dream 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2006	My rating:
	Leesgids Australië: Verhalen uit en over Australië by Venero Armanno, Robert Hughes, David Malouf 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	My rating:

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