Richard Skinner

Richard Skinner is the author of four novels. His first, The Red Dancer, was published in 2001 by Faber and has been translated into seven languages. A translation of his second, The Velvet Gentleman, was published in France in 2008 and was shortlisted for the Prix Livres & Musiques. For his third novel, The Darks, he was awarded an ACE Writers’ Award. He has written a writer’s handbook entitled Fiction Writing, which was published in 2009. His poetry collection, the light user scheme, will be published in 2013 by Smokestack. For many years, Richard has been an Associate Tutor at Goldsmiths College, London, where he teaches on the MA in Creative & Life Writing. He is Director of the Fiction Programme at the Faber Academy and a tutor on its six-month 'Writing a Novel' course. 

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