Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is an award-winning journalist and author, recognised for his extensive coverage of international affairs and insightful literary works. After making his literary debut with the novel ‘The Colour of Memory’ in 1989, Geoff Dyer quickly established himself as a prominent author. His non-fiction work, ‘But Beautiful,’ exploring the world of jazz, earned him the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award in 1992. This early success was followed by a consistent output of critically acclaimed works, including ‘Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.

He served as the FT bureau chief in Beijing from 2008 to 2012, before moving to Washington D.C. where he covered American foreign policy and the 2016 election between 2012 and 2017. During this period, Dyer also garnered additional literary accolades, including the GQ Writer of the Year Award in 2009 and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Best Comic Novel for ‘Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi’ in the same year. His academic contributions include serving as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa in 2013 and being named an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 2014.

In 2015, he was awarded the esteemed Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction. Geoff Dyer currently holds the position of Analysis Editor at the Financial Times, where he oversees longform articles including ‘The Big Read.’ He also shares his expertise in academia, teaching in the PhD program at the University of Southern California. Dyer’s insightful journalism, spanning roles as Brazil bureau chief for five years and covering the healthcare industry with a focus on the AIDS epidemic in Africa and Asia, complements his renowned literary work.