Niall Griffiths was born in Liverpool to a Welsh/Irish/Romany lineage. He's been a labourer, a barman, a server of fish and chips, a burglar, a farmhand, a tree feller, a factory worker and many other things too tedious to relate. Now, he's a full-time writer, living at the foot of a mountain in mid-Wales, with seven novels published, several works of non-fiction and more short stories and radio plays and travel pieces and reviews than he cares to, or possibly even can, count.

He is the author of Grits (2000), Sheepshagger (2001), Kelly + Victor (2002), Stump (2003), Wreckage (2005), Runt (2005), The Dreams of Max and Ronnie (2010) and A Great Big Shining Star (2013).

Griffiths' fourth novel, Stump, won the Wales Book of the Year Award. A film adaptation of his third novel, Kelly+Victor, won a BAFTA award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). He has been a featured speaker at literary events throughout Europe and North America.

In 2014, Griffiths is working on the screenplay for his sixth novel, Wreckage, a new novel, Broken Ghost and is an honorary professor at Wolverhampton University in the United Kingdom, where he teaches in the creative writing program.

He is represented by the Rogers, Coleridge and White agency.

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