Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism and Suppose a Sentence , both published by New York Review Books; The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror , I Am Sitting in a Room , Sanctuary , Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted 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 , London Review of Books ,...See more

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism and Suppose a Sentence , both published by New York Review Books; The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror , I Am Sitting in a Room , Sanctuary , Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted 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 , London Review of Books , The Times Literary Supplement , Bookforum , frieze , and Artforum . He is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London. See less