This MedLibrary.org supplementary page on Andrew O'Hagan is provided directly from the open source Wikipedia as a service to our readers. Please see the note below on authorship of this content, as well as the Wikipedia usage guidelines. To search for other content from our encyclopedia supplement, please use the form below:
Related Sponsors
Andrew O'Hagan (born 1968) is a Scottish writer and novelist. He was selected by the literary magazine Granta for inclusion in their 2003 list of the top 20 young British novelists.
Life and career
Andrew O'Hagan was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire. He was a pupil at St Michael's Academy before studying at the University of Strathclyde. In 1991, he joined the staff of the London Review of Books, one of the UK's leading literary publications, and worked there for four years.
In 1995, he published his first book, The Missing, to considerable critical acclaim. A genre-crossing book which explored the lives of people who have gone missing in Britain and the families that they left behind, The Missing was shortlisted for three literary awards. It was later filmed as a Channel 4 drama-documentary and was nominated for a Bafta.
O'Hagan's debut novel Our Fathers (1999) was also nominated for several awards, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the IMPAC Literary Award. It won the Winifred Holtby Prize for Fiction. His next novel Personality (2003), which has close similarities to the life of Lena Zavaroni, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. That same year, O'Hagan won the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His third novel, Be Near Me, was published in August 2006 by Faber and Faber (see [1])and long-listed for the year's Booker Prize. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Prize for Fiction 2008 and is currently being adapted for the stage in a co-production between the National Theatre for Scotland and the Donmar Warehouse in London. It will premiere in January 2009.
O'Hagan's novels are published in the United States by Houghlin Mifflin Harcourt and are translated into 15 languages.
He has also published essays, reportage, and stories in the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Granta, and the New Yorker.
In January 2008, he edited a new selection of Robert Burns's poems for Canongate, published as A Night Out With Robert Burns. He is presently recording a three-part film on Burns for the BBC, which will be broadcast in January 2009. Faber & Faber recently published O'Hagan's first collection of a non-fiction, The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America.
In 2001, he was named as a Goodwill Ambassador by the UK branch of UNICEF, and he has since been involved in fundraising efforts for the organization. He has travelled to the Sudan, India, Malawi and Mozambique and has joined fellow ambassadors Ewan McGregor, Ralph Fiennes, James Nesbitt, Martin Bell, and Jemima Khan in campaigning for Unicef. In 2008 he joined the prestigious Robert Burns Humanitarian Award judging panel.
O'Hagan is a Patron of the Scottish Book Trust, a board member of the George Orwell Trust, a director of the London Review of Books, and an Editor at Large of Esquire. He has been a visiting fellow in Creative Writing at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 2008 was made an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Strathclyde.
He lives in London and has a daughter, Nell, with his former girlfriend India Knight.
Notable works
Fiction
- Our Fathers, 1999
- Personality, 2003
- Be Near Me, 2006
Non-Fiction
- The Missing, 1995
- The Atlantic Ocean: Essays, 2008
As Editor
- New Writing 11, 2002
- The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, 2004
- A Night Out With Robert Burns, 2008
External links
- Profile at the Contemporary Writers website, including a critical assessment
- O'Hagan at the 2004 Republican National Convention: an article printed in the LRB
- NPR story about the Granta nomination
- Andrew O'Hagan on Marilyn Monroe
- Audio Interview with Andrew O'Hagan
- Andrew O'Hagan Interviewed for CBC Radio by Eleanor Wachtel
- Video: Andrew O'Hagan on writing, reading and drinking in Scotland on Scottish Book Trust
Wikipedia content modification information:
- This page was last modified on 26 August 2008, at 08:41.
Wikipedia Authorship and Review
Wikipedia content provided here is not reviewed directly by MedLibrary.org. Wikipedia content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with MedLibrary.org.
Wikipedia Usage Guidelines
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article on "Andrew O'Hagan".
The URL for this specific entry is:
All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.