Michael Pedersen
Michael is a prize-winning Scottish poet, writer, & animateur. He has published two highly acclaimed collections of poetry with Polygon Books and his latest, The Cat Prince and other poems, was published by Corsair in 2024 and won The Books Are My Bag award for best poetry.
His debut memoir, Boy Friends, was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish National Book Awards and published by Faber in 2022. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and was recently Writer in Residence at the University of Edinburgh, and Edinburgh's Makar. His debut novel, Muckle Flugga, was published by Faber in 2025, and was an Observer Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Saltires and The Author’s Club Best First Novel.
‘' Michael Pedersen is a rare writer of real passion and power and this debut is phenomenal.’ -- Matt Haig
‘A quirky and original debut that sizzles with scintillating prose.’ -- Bernardine Evaristo
‘A kaleidoscopic and linguistically daring work of scintillating metaphysics undergirded by the dignified quest for joy, redemption, and the power of place.’ -- Ocean Vuong
'Enchanting...astonishingly compelling...sparklingly written...rare and to be treasured'.’ —Stephen Fry
'Lucid, lyrical, loaded, BOY FRIENDS is a love letter to friendship.' —Jackie Kay
'A beautiful, life-affirming book' —Ian Rankin
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