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Neal Hovelmeier

Neal Hovelmeier was born in Harare. Under the pseudonym Ian Holding, he has published three novels: Unfeeling (2005, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize), Of Beasts and Beings (2010) and What Happened to Us (2018). His short fiction has appeared in the Cambridge Literary Review and received Honourable Mention in the Manchester Prize. He was a finalist for the 2014 Rolex Mentor-Protégé Initiative, and has twice been a Fellow of the Hawthornden Literary Institute. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand.