British · b. 1985
Ned Beauman writes comic novels that mix erudition with absurdity. "The Teleportation Accident" (2012) was longlisted for the Booker Prize—a comic novel about a Weimar stage designer chasing a woman across continents while history collapses around him. Beauman's subsequent work continues the pattern: improbable plots, historical settings, sentences that show off without losing the reader.