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Wednesday 09 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Award-winning Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan returns to Australia. The author of Be Near Me, Personality and his new book The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, discusses a life in writing: love, religion, class hatred, the clash of generations and Maltese poodles.
In conversation with Michael McGirr.
Featuring
Andrew O'Hagan
Andrew O'Hagan is one of the UK’s brightest new novelists.
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. Our Fathers, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2003, and in that same year Granta named him one of the Best of Young British Novelists. He is also the recipient of the EM Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His most recent novel, The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, was published in 2010. He lives in London.
Michael McGirr
Michael McGirr is a well know essayist, reviewer and short fiction writer.
His most recent book is The Lost Art of Sleep, a comedy about the missing third of our lives. He has also written Bypass (a quirky biography of the Hume Highway which is currently a VCE English text) and Things You Get For Free. All his books have been published by Picador. At different times, Michael has been publisher of Eureka Street and fiction editor of Meanjin. He is currently the Head of Faith and Mission at St Kevin’s College in Melbourne. He lives in Yarraville with his wife and their three children.