Geoff Dyer
Hailed as “a national treasure” (Zadie Smith), Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels, a critical study of John Berger, and six other non-fiction books including But Beautiful (awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize) and Out of Sheer Rage (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). He’ll be reading from his latest novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi as Talvin Singh improvises live on the tabla to a rare screening of Forest of Bliss.
Beautifully told, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is a story of erotic love and spiritual yearning; playful, stylish, sensual, comic, ingenious and utterly captivating. It confirms Geoff Dyer as one of Britain’s most exciting and original writers.
The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography’s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award, Geoff is a regular contributor to publications including the Guardian and the New Statesman. He lives in London.
Read Geoff’s profile on ContemporaryWriters.com
“Geoff Dyer is a true original – one of those rare voices in contemporary literature that never ceases to surprise, disturb and delight. Risky, breathtakingly candid, intellectual, cool, outrageous, laconic and sometimes shocking… a must-read for our confused and perplexing times.”
William Boyd
“Jeff in Venice is serious fiction; learned travelogue; funny, arch and sad; a cynic’s ascent into redemptive love and a stoner’s descent into ‘Gone-Native’ madness. It drips with Geoff Dyer’s derelict luminosity.”
David Mitchell
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