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Damian Le Bas

Damian Le Bas is a writer, filmmaker and visual artist. His first book The Stopping Places won the Somerset Maugham Award, a Jerwood Award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His second book The Drowned Places was published in 2025 and nominated for a Maritime Foundation Best Book award. Damian is widely published as a journalist and poet. A recipient of a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, he is a member of the European Film Academy, holds a First Class degree in Theology from the University of Oxford, and was awarded an honorary Master of Education by the University of Chichester. Besides getting in the sea he loves music, walking and spending time in the woods and hills with his family and friends. Damian is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.