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Julian Gough Author

Julian Gough is the author of three comic novels and was formerly the lead singer of the underground literary band Toasted Heretic. He won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Everyman Bollinger Wodehouse Prize in 2008 and 2012. In 2011 he wrote the ending to Minecraft, Time magazine's computer game of the year.

Praise for Julian Gough:

'Julian Gough is a wonderful writer' Sebastian Barry

'An outstanding talent' Observer

'Thoroughly entertaining' New York Times (Juno & Juliet)

'Extremely original and surprising' Sunday Independent (Jude)

'Gough makes it look easy, with an instinctive sense of timing, and a razor sharp and subversive intellect' Sunday Tribune (Jude)