Ray Robinson first won attention in 2006 with his debut novel, Electricity (Picador, 2006). He was hailed as "among the most impressive voices of Britain's younger generation" by the Irish Times. Electricity was shortlisted for both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Authors’ Club First Novel Award. The screen adaptation of Electricity premiered at the BFI London Film Festival 2014, starring Agyness Deyn. The film won Best Screenplay at the National Film Awards in 2015.
Robinson’s other novels are The Man Without (Picador, 2008), Forgetting Zoe (Heinemann, 2010), and Jawbone Lake (Heinemann, 2014). Forgetting Zoë was a winner of the inaugural Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and was the Observer’s ‘Thriller of the Month’. The Mating Habits of Stags was shortlisted for the Portico Prize and longlisted for the Folio Prize.
Robinson is a post-graduate of Lancaster University where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Creative Writing in 2006. He has appeared at literary festivals around the world, including La Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Mexico, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
As a screenwriter, he co-authored the documentary film Dream Town, examining a decaying Russian coal mining town on the Norwegian island of Svalbard. The film won Best Picture at the Chicago Underground Film Festival. In 2016 he wrote the multi-award-winning, BAFTA-nominated short film Edith, starring Peter Mullan and Michelle Fairley, which was also longlisted at the British Independent Film Awards. His latest novel The Mating Habits of Stags is based on the film.
Robinson is a Literary Mentor for The Literary Consultancy and an academic proofreader for various institutions around the world, including Roskilde University in Copenhagen.
