Andrew O'Hagan

Author

Scottish author Andrew O'Hagan made his literary debut in 1995 with The Missing, which was later filmed as a Channel 4 drama-documentary. O’Hagan followed this up with Our Fathers (1999), Personality (2003), Be Near Me (2006), which was adapted for theatre in Scotland and England, and The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog (2006). O’Hagan has won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction.

O’Hagan has contributed to the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian, the Evening Standard, and The New Yorker, and in 2008 edited a selection of works by Robert Burns. He also wrote and presented a three-part film on Burns for the BBC. He is an honorary lifetime member of Irvine Burns Club, a Patron of the Scottish Book Trust, a board member of the George Orwell Trust, and an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Strathclyde. O’Hagan is also a Goodwill Ambassador for the UK branch of UNICEF.