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.
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 literar...
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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.
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...
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