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Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan is a writer, and contributing editor to the London Review of Books and Granta magazine. Our Fathers (1999), his first novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.

In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of 20 Best of Young British Novelists.
In 2004 he edited The Weekenders: Adventures in Calcutta, a collection of various writers' accounts of Kolkata.

June 2024

  • John Burnside.

    ‘His greatness was matched by his kindness’: remembering John Burnside

    Writers Andrew O’Hagan, Sarah Perry and more pay tribute to the celebrated Scottish poet, novelist and memoirist, who died last week aged 69

May 2024

  • Author Andrew O'Hagan<br>Scotish Author Andrew O'Hagan, at his home in London. His most recent book 'Mayflies' is about a friend of his from his youth and the hedonistic times they had. He is also Editor at Large of the London Review of Books and Esquire Magazine. Date: 11 August 2020 Photograph by Amit Lennon. **RE-TOUCHED High Res. Use This!

    On my radar
    On my radar: Andrew O’Hagan’s cultural highlights

    The novelist on a comedic TikTok sensation, the importance of a good suit and his favourite educational app

March 2024

  • Andrew O’Hagan at home in London.

    ‘Leaving home used to be a rite of passage’: Andrew O’Hagan on family, freedom and a generational divide

    The Scottish novelist moved out as early as he could. His son says he might never leave. Do young people still want to flee the nest, he asks, and what happens when a population comes to maturity feeling ‘made’ by their parents?

September 2020

  • Andrew O’Hagan

    Books that made me
    Andrew O'Hagan: 'The last book to make me cry? For the Record by David Cameron'

    The author on gifting copies of Danez Smith’s Homie, feeling disillusioned by Morrissey and the book that changed his life

March 2020

  • Dilyn the dog being hugged by Carrie Symonds

    The diary of Dilyn the dog: No 10 has more reshuffles than Wolf Hall

    As told to Andrew O'Hagan
    The No 10 dog tells all about rumours of its departure, told to the writer and journalist Andrew O’Hagan

January 2020

  • Deborah Orr, Guardian staff byline

    Book of the day
    Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr review – a masterpiece of self-exploration

    A searching memoir from the late Guardian journalist, which lays bare her upbringing and the evisceration of her Scottish industrial town

December 2017

  • ‘Oh, Mother, let me in!’ … a Victorian engraving of ruined Lochmaben Castle in Scotland by W Brown.

    Horrors and heart-warmers: Sarah Waters, Mel Giedroyc and more pick great winter's tales

    Mel Giedroyc chooses a Christmas pud whodunnit, Sarah Waters a ghostly spinetingler. Andrew O’Hagan reads a psychic shocker – and Penelope Wilton nabs Winnie the Pooh. But what will Emeli Sandé and Tom Hollander choose?

June 2017

  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Will social media kill the novel? Andrew O'Hagan on the end of private life

    Writers thrive on privacy, not on Twitter. What does a world in which our interior lives are played out online mean for the novel? It is a call to action, argues the novelist

October 2016

  • Event: Artist: Bob Dylan. Photographer: Val Wilmer. Credit: Val Wilmer/Redferns. Copyright Holder: Val Wilmer.

    'Dylan towers over everyone' – Salman Rushdie, Kate Tempest and more pay tribute to Bob Dylan

    Salman Rushdie, Cerys Matthew, Jarvis Cocker, Andrew Motion, Billy Bragg and other artists and writers pick their favourite moments from Dylan’s body of work

February 2015

  • Andrew O'Hagan.

    Andrew O’Hagan: ‘I am in love with poetry’

    As Andrew O’Hagan prepares to complete a journey around the British Isles begun with Seamus Heaney, he reflects on his lifelong immersion in poetry, and celebrates poets as risk-takers and miracle-workers

January 2015

  • Andrew O'Hagan photographed at Le Meridien Resort, Bora Bora.

    Weekend magazine travel special 2015
    Andrew O’Hagan seeks solitude on Bora Bora

    The novelist escapes it all on a dreamy desert island in the South Pacific. But can you have too much of a good thing?

August 2014

  • Edna O'Brien

    Rereading
    Edna O'Brien's Night is all passion, all mind

    Night, Edna O'Brien's short stylistic masterpiece, gave new and fierce expression to female sexuality, writes Andrew O'Hagan

September 2013

  • O’Hagan and Heaney on the island of Iona

    Seamus Heaney: my travels with the great poet

    Seamus Heaney was a great poet and friend, says Andrew O'Hagan, as he relives their travels in Scotland, Ireland and Wales – tucking into chowder and contemplating the afterlife

August 2013

  • Andrew O’Hagan meets young Afghan girls during a visit to Kabul

    From classrooms to suicide bombs: children's lives in Afghanistan

    Child casualties in Afghanistan are rising, among them children recruited as suicide bombers by the Taliban – often with their parents' blessing. But education is saving many others, says Andrew O'Hagan

April 2013

  • Review cover story

    Six novelists on their favourite second artform

    Writers often worry about the dangers of outside influence, but what about the non-literary inspirations they are far more comfortable admitting to? Andrew O'Hagan talks to six novelists about their passion for a second artform

October 2012

  • Twitter

    Twitter fiction: 21 authors try their hand at 140-character novels

  • Scene from Enquirer

    Bad press: a new play gives journalists a voice

February 2012

  • The velodrome at the London 2012 Olympic park in Stratford

    In Stratford's Olympic park, you can smell the ambition for London 2012

    There are cranes everywhere. Hard hats and a sense that if we get this right, everything will change for the better

September 2011

  • Brian Pettifer and Joe McFadden rehearse Andrew O'Hagan's The Missing.

    Andrew O'Hagan: 'The Missing was always waiting to be a play'

    Andrew O'Hagan was too haunted by his first book – an investigation of missing persons in the light of the West murders – to turn it into a play. He reveals why he changed his mind

July 2011

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    Poverty matters blog
    East Africa famine: Our values are on trial

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Andrew O'Hagan: This is a children's famine, and it shines a light into the empty places of our conscience

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