Ben Rice
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Ben Rice (born in Tiverton, Devon, 1972), is a prize-winning British author.
Ben Rice was educated at Blundell's School and read English literature at the Newcastle University and then the University of 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".