John Murray (born 1950, Flimby, Cumberland) is an English writer and novelist known for writing satirical novels on a range of subjects.
Murray's first novel, Samarkand, was published in 1985 (it was broadcast on BBC Radio 3)) and in 1988 he received the Dylan Thomas Award for 2 stories out of his collection, Pleasure.
He has also published several other critically acclaimed novels including, Kin, Reiver Blues, Radio Activity, The Legend of Liz and Joe and A Gentleman's Relish.
He has been a regular fiction tutor at The Arvon Foundation since 1989 and every summer from 1995 to 2007 he led a creative writing workshop at Madingley Hall, Cambridge.
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