Sam Byers (born 1979) is a British novelist.
[1] He was born in Bury St Edmunds and now lives in Norwich, where he studied at the University of East Anglia (MA Creative Writing, 2004; PhD, 2014).
[2] Byers' debut novel Idiopathy, a satire based on the spread of a BSE-like disease,[3] received a Betty Trask Award and the Waterstones 11 prize.
In 2018 Byers published his second novel, Perfidious Albion, "a new media satire that switches into a hi-tech dystopia centred on class politics.
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