Most days, I wanted to be Albrecht in the classical ballet Giselle, dancing until I dropped dead.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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Andrew O’Hagan
b. 1968
Born in Glasgow, Andrew O’Hagan, 58, studied at the University of Strathclyde. In 1995, he published The Missing, a work of nonfiction. His debut novel, Our Fathers, was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 1999; Be Near Me and The Illuminations were longlisted in 2006 and 2015. His recent novels are Caledonian Road and Mayflies. The latter was adapted for BBC television in 2022 and is now a play which will be performed at the Edinburgh fringe from 7 to 30 August. O’Hagan is editor at large for the London Review of Books; he lives in London with his wife and has a daughter.
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Somebody once told me I was the spitting image of David Cameron.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
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The other day, when I decided that maybe I had been too harsh on mid-period Sting.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
For world capitalism to grind to a halt.
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As a good friend.
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I can’t say it.
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My interest in Los Angeles.
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Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
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My first holy communion, where my trousers were too big for me and fell down, a circumstance which earned me both the instant contempt of the girls and the heightened interest of the priests. That’s just how it was in 1975.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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