Damian Barr

Damian Barr is an award-winning writer. His memoir, Maggie & Me, won Stonewall Writer of the Year and Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. It is a Scottish classic. His debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and Book of the Year in the Observer, Guardian and Mail. He’s written columns for The Times and Big Issue and hosted series for Radio 4 including Guide Books and Whose Truth Is It Anyway? He has written several plays for radio. Maggie & Me is his first stage play. Damian holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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