Richard Milward

Richard Milward was born in 1984 in Middlesbrough, England. In April 2007, his debut novel Apples (Faber) was published when Richard was the tender age of twenty-two, to great critical acclaim. Northern Stage/Company of Angels produced Apples for the stage in 2010, touring it extensively in the UK, including an award-winning spell at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Richard's second novel, Ten Storey Love Song (Faber), was released in the UK in February 2009, receiving accolades from such folk as Irvine Welsh ('a major talent') and Lauren Laverne ('astounding'). His third novel, Kimberly's Capital Punishment, was published in August 2012.

To date, Richard's books have been translated into nine different languages (Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Turkish). Richard's writing (fiction and non-fiction) has appeared in The Face, Dazed & Confused, The Guardian, The Independent, Arena, .Cent, Vice, The Quietus, Loops, Le Gun, Bare Bones, It's Nice That, Middlesbrough FC fanzine Fly Me To The Moon and others. 

In June 2008, Richard graduated from Central St Martins College of Art and Design with degree in Fine Art. He has exhibited his psychedelic, slapdash artwork across the UK and Europe. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from Teesside University.

His latest novel, Man-Eating Typewriter, was published by White Rabbit in 2023, alongside the release of his backlist novels reissued on White Rabbit. It received wide acclaim and was shortlisted for The Goldsmith’s Prize.

Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023

Included in the Times Literary Supplement’s Books of the Year 2023

‘Ingenious’ - The Guardian Books Highlights for 2023

‘Milward has created a very rare beast of a book; one that is propulsive, relevant, outrageous, and often alarmingly beautiful. Here is a novel that lays bare the depravity of human impulse, whilst testing the limits of language and form with masterful ease and reckless glee… Has all the transgressive energy of a cult classic in the making’ - Maddie Mortimer, author of Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies, judge of Goldsmiths Prize 2023

‘A daring, meandering, brilliant book… An exhibition of literary verve as well as a probing examination of morality within a sick society, Man-Eating Typewriter is a phenomenal achievement’ - Literary Review

‘Man-Eating Typewriter is a disgusting and depraved book, awash with orgies, drug abuse, bestiality, casual violence, cross-dressing, castration, comically unconventional sexual assaults, and lovingly described abnormal bowel movements. I thoroughly enjoyed it… [It] deserves to be boosted by a prize or two’ - Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph

‘Richard Milward… writes like a demon, and has produced that rarest of all things on the modern bookshelf: a genuinely exhilarating entertainment. The linguistic invention borders on the dazzling… both laugh-out-loud funny and authentically disgusting’ - Neil Bartlett, The Guardian (read the full review HERE)

‘Ingenious… Intricate, hilarious, as grossly excessive as the milieu it depicts, the novel often reads as if Jean Genet and Vladimir Nabokov had joined the screenwriting team of the Carry On films… An epic virtuoso turn’ - Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times