In Conversation with Lavie Tidhar

Community Event led by Croydon Libraries

Croydon Libraries is pleased to welcome author Lavie Tidhar. Booking essential

Lavie works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has variously been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by The Guardian and The Financial Times, to Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk by Publishers Weekly and to Kurt Vonnegut by Locus.

His new book The Circumference of the World will be published in September:

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax.

In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.

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About the author

British Science Fiction, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Award–winning author Lavie Tidhar (A Man Lies Dreaming, The Escapement, Neom) is an acclaimed author of literature, science fiction, fantasy, graphic novels, and middlegrade fiction. Tidhar received the Campbell, Xingyun, and Neukom Awards for the novel Central Station. His speaking appearances include Cambridge University, PEN, and the Singapore Writers Festival. He has been a Guest of Honor at book conventions in Japan, Poland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, China, and elsewhere. Tidhar currently resides with his family in London.

Lavie works across genres, combining detective and thriller modes with poetry, science fiction and historical and autobiographical material. His work has variously been compared to that of Philip K. Dick by the Guardian and the Financial Times, to Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk by Publishers Weekly and to Kurt Vonnegut by Locus

Lavie is currently a Visiting Professor and Writer in Residence at Richmond, The American International University in London.