Richard Owain Roberts

Richard Owain Roberts is the author of Hello Friend We Missed You, The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize winning novel for 2020.

Praise for Hello Friend We Missed You:

'It took me by surprise when I read it, and it’s haunted me ever since. It’s formally daring, with clipped sentences, short elliptical chapters, and almost impressionistic streams of thought. It’s also very funny. But it’s the emotional complexity and gentle melancholy of the book that endures. It’s a moving experience – and that matters. Especially in a difficult year such as this one.' - Sam Jordison, The Guardian

'A virtuoso display of a writer in complete and audacious command of his material. What is at root a simple boy-meets-girl story is transmuted into something uniquely astonishing through a wild and intrepid imagination. To repeat: this novel is so, soooo good.' – Niall Griffiths

'This is an undeniably cool book but it also has a great deal of soul... a writer of exceptional stylistic talent but one who manages to bring characters and places into vibrant life. richard Owain Roberts could be the voice of our generation, I hope people are reading.' – Amy Lloyd, One More Lie (Penguin)

'If one of the functions of the novel is to reflect the world around us then Hello Friend We Missed You is as close as you can get to a perfect piece of art.' – Rhys Thomas, The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway (Wildfire)

Richard is the author of the short fiction collection All The Places We Lived (Parthian Books, 2015).

Praise for All the Places We Lived:

'The Welsh David Foster Wallace' – Srdjan Srdic

'An inimitable, substantial prose stylist – and by far the funniest contemporary British writer around' – Bill Broady

'… the satirical style of Brett Easton Ellis… Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates… but more than anything, read it if you like great fiction' – Wales Arts Review

Richard is the subject of ULTRA, the forthcoming narrative documentary that covers his time in Serbia promoting the Serbian translation of All The Places We Lived.

Richard lives in Cardiff, Wales with his family.

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