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Steven Hall
Steven Hall at the "Humber Mouth" Hull literature festival 2006
Born1975
Derbyshire, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationWriter

Steven Hall (born 1975 in Derbyshire) is a British writer. He is the author of The Raw Shark Texts, lead writer of the video game Battlefield 1, and writer on Nike's World Cup short film The Last Game.[1][2]

His debut novel, The Raw Shark Texts won the 2008 Somerset Maugham Award and a 2007 Borders Original Voices Award, and was shortlisted for the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award.[3] The book has been translated into 29 different languages, and a screenplay for a film adaptation has been written by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire).[4]


Hall has written for Granta Magazine and Lonely Planet.[5][6] He has also written scripts for Doctor Who radio dramas[7] and was the lead writer for the video games Crysis 3,[8][9] Ryse: Son of Rome,[10] Battlefield 1, and Battlefield V.

In 2007, Hall was named as one of Waterstone's "25 Authors for the Future".[11] In 2010, Hall was named as one of the best 20 novelists under 40 by The Daily Telegraph.[12] In 2013, Hall was named as one of Granta′s Best of Young British Novelists 2013 out of 20 novelists listed in total.[13]

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Short stories[edit]

  • "Stories for a Phone Book," in New Writing 13 (2005)[16]
  • "Ten Tickets," in "A Couple of Stops (Light Transit)" (2006)
  • "What I Think About When I Think About Robots," in Granta 109: Work (2010)[17]
  • "The End of Endings," in Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4 (2013)

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