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On my radar: Geoff Dyer’s cultural highlights

The author and critic on extreme climbing films, Australian experimentalists the Necks and a visionary of Italian photography

The writer and critic Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham in 1958 and educated at Oxford University. Over the past 32 years, he has published four novels as well as nonfiction works on topics including John Berger and the film Stalker. In 1992 he won the Somerset Maugham award for But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz. His latest book, Broadsword Calling Danny Boy, a scene-by-scene comic analysis of the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, is published by Penguin on Thursday.

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