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Ben Naparstek

Ben Naparstek was born in Melbourne in 1986, and gained degrees in arts and law from the University of Melbourne before taking up a graduate fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He returned to Melbourne to become editor of The Monthly in May 2009, after eight years of writing about books and ideas for more than 40 newspapers and magazines. He is co-editor of The Jacqueline Rose Reader, forthcoming from Duke University Press. His first book, a collection of author profiles titled In Conversation: Encounters with Great Writers, was published by Scribe last year with rights sold to China and Brazil.