Award-winning Scottish novelist Andrew O’Hagan returns to Australia with his new book The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe. O’Hagan discusses a life in writing: love, religion, class hatred, the clash of generations and Maltese poodles. Andrew will be in conversation with Chrissy Sharp.
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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.