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Sam Byers (born 1979) is a British novelist.[1] He was born in Bury St Edmunds and now lives in Norwich, where he studied at the University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing, 2004; PhD, 2014).[2]

Sam Byers
Born	1979
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Alma mater	University of East Anglia
Notable awards	Betty Trask Award (2014)
Website
www.sambyers.co.uk

Byers' debut novel Idiopathy, a satire based on the spread of a BSE-like disease,[3] received a Betty Trask Award and the Waterstones 11 prize. Idiopathy was also shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Book Awards First Novel award, and longlisted for the 2014 Desmond Elliott Prize.

In 2018 Byers published his second novel, Perfidious Albion, "a new media satire that switches into a hi-tech dystopia centred on class politics."[4]

Awards

• 2014 Betty Trask Award, Idiopathy
• 2013 Waterstones 11, Idiopathy

Bibliography

• Idiopathy (2013)
• Perfidious Albion (2018)
• Come Join Our Disease (2021)

References

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