Toby Litt

Toby Litt grew up in Ampthill, Bedfordshire. He has worked as a teacher, bookseller and subtitler. A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia, Toby is a Granta Best of Young British Novelist and a regular on Radio 3’s The Verb. His story ‘The Retreat’ won the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize. His most recent novel, Patience, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize. When he is not writing, Toby likes sitting doing nothing.