Pobby and Dingan
First UK edition | |
| Author | Ben Rice |
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| Cover artist | Rob Clifford |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 96 |
| ISBN | 0-2240-6110-0 |
Pobby and Dingan is a novella by English author Ben Rice, which first appeared in issue 70 of Granta in Summer 2000 and published in book form later that year. It was joint winner of the 2001 Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It has been made into the 2006 film Opal Dream, a 2010 play for children by Catherine Wheels Theatre Company and a 2012 play The Mysterious Vanishment Of Pobby & Dingan for Bristol theatre company Travelling Light.