Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer, male, is a famous British writer and one of the best contemporary British writers. Born in Jordanham, England, in 1958, he graduated from Oxford University with a major in English Literature. So far, he has written four novels and eleven collections of non-fiction works. These works have brought him numerous literary awards, including the Somerset Maugham Literary Award, the National Society of Critics Award, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, and the E.M. Foster Literary Award, GQ Writer of the Year Award, Bollinger Public Wodehouse Award, etc. His works cover a wide range of topics, including unique and profound comments on music, literature, movies, travel, photography, culture, etc. His writing is elegant, sensitive, funny, and smart, and he is good at using ridicule and exquisite details to frame profound themes. A number of internationally renowned writers such as Haruki Murakami, Mike Ondaatje, Alain de Botton, Zadie Smith, and David Mitchell have highly praised his works.

Chinese name: Geoff Dyer

Foreign name: Geoff Dyer

Nationality: British

Ethnicity: Germanic

Birthplace: Chordingham, England

Date of Birth: 1958

Occupation: Writer

Belief: Liberalism

Mainly Achievement: British best-selling author

Representative works: "So Beautiful: About Jazz", "Lazy Yoga", "Search", etc.

Gender: Male

Works

Four representative works will be published in July 2013, namely: "So Beautiful: About Jazz" (the most internationally influential work, the Japanese version was translated by Haruki Murakami, and won the Somerset Maugham Literary Award Award-winning works), "Lazy Yoga" (a collection of travel notes, the 2004 W.H. Smith Literary Award for the best travel literature book of the year), "In a Fury: About the Strange Journey of D.H. Lawrence" (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) , and the novel Searching.

The Cultural Office of the British Embassy is very supportive of inviting Jeff Dyer to China and expressed that it will fully assist the promotion activities of this British national treasure writer in China.

Character evaluation

"I like his understanding of absurdity, and his pessimism is mixed with tenacious joy." Alain de Botton, author of "The Art of Travel" Reading his book.

A noisy joy that Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient, derives from his writing.

“As a translator, I am very lucky to enjoy the joy of discovering writers who are still little known in Japan.” Haruki Murakami is translating his book. "

He is the British writer and photographer Jeff Dyer

His philosophy is "I will not write a 'standard style' novel"

Jack All of Dave Dell's travel-related works are a combination of fantastic fiction and real scenes. He felt that it was incorrect to read travel literature as a travel manual. , I planned to write it as a news report, but as I continued to write it, it became not a work in the normal sense - it became a "Jeff Dell style" again. It did not become what I started. Something to hope for. And it proved to me that I couldn't be a journalist anymore."

Be informal and embody values.

Maintain the mentality of "not rich and not famous"

Jeff Dyer said in an interview with "Nanfang Daily": Maintaining the mentality of "not rich and not famous" will help maintain creativity Passion.