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Geoff Dyer is one of Britain’s most exciting and original writers; author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger and four genre-defying books including his award-winning The Ongoing Moment about photography, But Beautiful, and Out of Sheer Rage. His recent books are Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, the story of time spent and loves found and lost in Venice and India, and his collected essays (perhaps the most stimulating read of 2011). Geoff talks about his recent work.
Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham and was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His first book, Ways of Telling: the Work of John Berger, was published in 1986. His first novel was The Colour of Memory (1989), set in Brixton, south London, in the 1980s. His non-fiction includes a book about jazz, But Beautiful (1991), winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The Missing of the Somme (1994), which was adapted for BBC Radio 3; and a collection of essays, Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-99. His latest works are Jeff in Venice, Death in Varansi, winner of the 2009 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; and Working the Room (2010). A new book, Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, will be published in Spring 2012. www.geoffdyer.com
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