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Geoff Dyer


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Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and six other nonfiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. The winner of a Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in London.
 
 
Novels
   The Colour of Memory (1989)
   The Search (1993)
   Paris Trance (1998)
   Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2007)
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Collections
   Ox-Tales: Fire (2009) (with others)
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Awards
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel winner (2009) : Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi


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