Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Affinities, Suppose a Sentence, and Essayism (all published by New York Review Books), as well as The Great Explosion (short-listed for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (short-listed for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, frieze, and Artforum. He has curated exhibitions for the Tate and Hayward galleries. He lives in London.


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