Geoff Dyer

Omnivorously curious and psychologically probing, Geoff Dyer’s writings reinvent again and again the possibilities of nonfiction, discovering as many new subjects as he does ways of writing about them.

Geoﬀ Dyer is the author of four novels and numerous books of nonﬁction. Whether wrestling with the specter of D. H. Lawrence (Out of Sheer Rage, 1997), “summarizing the action” of a famously slow-moving Tarkovsky ﬁlm (Zona, 2012), or narrating his stay aboard an aircraft carrier (Another Great Day at Sea, 2014), Dyer’s genre-defying explorations have earned him universal admiration as singularly restless and original in his vision. Writing in the New York Review of Books, Giles Harvey noted approvingly, “This prowling and capricious nature has produced one of the strangest bodies of work in contemporary letters.” In addition to his book-length works, Dyer has written essays and reviews for a variety of publications, a selection of which are collected in Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (2011) and awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England and currently resides in Los Angeles.

I am absolutely overjoyed--or stunned really--to be honored in this way. I thank the committee from the bottom of my heart. GEOFF DYER