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Andrew O'Hagan


Scotland (b.1968)

Andrew O'Hagan is one of his generation's most exciting and most serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize. He was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.
 

Awards: LA Times (2007), James Tait Black (2003)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Our Fathers (1999)
   Personality (2003)
   Be Near Me (2006)
   The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog (2010)
   The Illuminations (2015)
   Mayflies (2020)
   Caledonian Road (2024)
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Anthologies edited
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Series contributed to
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Non fiction show
 
Books containing stories by Andrew O'Hagan
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Midsummer Nights (2009)
Tales from the Opera
edited by
Jeanette Winterson

Awards
2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Be Near Me
2003 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Personality
2003 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations
2025 Dublin Literary Award (longlist) : Caledonian Road
2024 Saltire Literary Award (longlist) : Caledonian Road
2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (finalist) : Caledonian Road
2015 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Illuminations
2006 Booker Prize (longlist) : Be Near Me
2001 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Our Fathers
1999 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Our Fathers


Andrew O'Hagan recommends
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Something Rotten (2025)
Andrew Lipstein
"Few novels are willing to confront the stormy waters that lie between personhood, parenthood, the imagined life, and reality. Our best novelists have it all right in front of them, if they possess the talent to look up and see. There may be something rotten in the state of Denmark, or the state of manhood, but the net result in Something Rotten is a book about a vacation that is both outrageous and very funny. Sometimes, in these ultra-serious times, we are apt to forget that fiction, in its origins, is a comic form. Andrew Lipstein provides a reminder, and his latest novel is a brilliant antidote to the nonsense of now."
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Frankie (2024)
Graham Norton
"Frankie is a perfect song of a book and everyone who likes human beings should read it."
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Glasgow Boys (2024)
Margaret McDonald
"What a lovely book. Glasgow Boys is tenderness itself, a song to love and friendship. I really cared about Finlay and Banjo and all the flesh-and-blood people around them, wishing them all the best. Margaret McDonald is a terrific new talent and I encourage you to buy this novel for everyone who makes you smile."

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