Pobby and Dingan is a novella by English author Ben Rice, which first appeared in issue 70 of Granta in Summer 2000[1] and published in book form later that year.

It was joint winner of the 2001 Somerset Maugham Award[2] and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

[4] Jeff Giles in the New York Times Book Review is full in his praise "Pobby and Dingan is an enormously touching, imaginative and unexpected novel that just glows in your hands ... What's so extraordinary about Rice's novel is how unpredictable it is, how effortlessly it mingles whimsy and gravitas, how its plot races ahead long after you figured it would run out of gas.

"[5] Lydia Millet in The Washington Post writes "At once delicate and down-to-earth, melancholy and coarse, Pobby and Dingan is a disarmingly modest and carefully rendered debut ... Don't let the slimness of the volume dissuade you; the story has a quiet strength that makes it memorable.

"[4] Robert McCrum in The Observer writes "Every character in this pocket masterpiece is speaking Australian with a vengeance.