Brian Dillon

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. He is the author of The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives (Faber & Faber, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. The UK edition is Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Penguin, 2009). His first book, In the Dark Room (Penguin, 2005) won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. He is UK Editor of Cabinet, a quarterly magazine of art and culture based in New York, and writes regularly for such publications as the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the New Statesman, frieze, Artforum and Tate etc. His novella, Sanctuary, will be published by Sternberg Press in 2010. He lives in Canterbury, where he is an AHRC Research Fellow at the University of Kent.