Geoff Dyer is the author of three novels: Paris Trance, The
Search, The Colour of Memory; a critical study of John Berger,
Ways of Telling; a collection of essays, Anglo-English
Attitudes; and four genre-defying titles: But
Beautiful (winner of a 1992 Somerset Maugham Prize,
short-listed for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial
Prize), The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer
Rage (a finalist, in the US, for a National Book Critics
Circle Award) , Yoga For People
Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It (winner of the 2004 W
H Smith Best Travel Book Award), and, most recently, The
Ongoing Moment, an idiosyncratic history of photography and
winner of the ICP Infinity Award for Writing on Photography. In
2003 he was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship; in 2005 he
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2006 he
received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters.
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