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Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born 22 February 1964)[2] is an English author and screenwriter. He is the author of the series of novels Rivers of London. He also wrote two Doctor Who serials in the late 1980s and spin-off novels from Doctor Who and Blake's 7.

Ben Aaronovitch

Ben Dylan Aaronovitch
(1964-02-22) 22 February 1964
Camden, London, England

Author, screenwriter

Marie Fofana
(m. 1992)
[1]

Biography[edit]

Born in Camden,[3] Aaronovitch is the son of the economist Sam Aaronovitch who was a senior member of the Communist Party of Great Britain,[4] and the younger brother of actor Owen Aaronovitch and journalist David Aaronovitch.[5] He attended Holloway School.[6]


Aaronovitch left school with no particular plan. “Instead of going to university I basically faffed about. I had a series of terrible jobs, the kind you get when you have no qualifications.” These included working as a security guard for Securitas, which he says taught him “to understand shoplifting a lot better... So it did come in quite handy later, for work”.[7] During one of the short-term jobs he submitted some scripts to the BBC, which led to him writing Doctor Who stories, and finally, while working at Waterstones, Aaronovitch published his first Rivers of London novel, which rapidly became a word-of-mouth success, enabling him to write full-time. He is passionate about diversity in literature,[8] and in 2020 he founded the Future Worlds Prize, then known as the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award, aimed at opening up science fiction and fantasy publishing to more diverse writers.[9][10]


In 2023 it was announced that Rivers of London would be adapted for TV as a co-production between Pure Fiction Television, See-Saw Films and Aaronovitch’s own production company, Unnecessary Logo.[11]


Aaronovitch lives in Wimbledon.[12]

(1988)

Remembrance of the Daleks

(1989)

Battlefield

Rebel (2007)

When Vila Met Gan (2008)

Eye of the Machine (2008)

Blood and Earth (2009)

Remembrance of the Daleks

Body Work #1 – 16 July 2015

Body Work #2 – 19 August 2015

Body Work #3 – 16 September 2015

Body Work #4 – 21 October 2015

Body Work #5 – 20 November 2015

Body Work (collection/graphic novel) – 29 March 2016  9781782761877

ISBN

Gone Fishing in

Short Trips: Time Signature

Walking Backwards for Christmas in

Something Changed

The Evacuation of Bernice Summerfield Considered as a Short Film by Terry Gilliam in

Missing Adventures

Official website

Aaronovitch's blog

at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Ben Aaronovitch