Biography

Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous travel writers. His ten books, including UK best-sellers 'Stalin's Nose' and 'Under the Dragon', have challenged and invigorated creative non-fiction writing, and - according to the late John Fowles - are among works that 'marvellously explain why literature still lives’.

He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an active member of English PEN. He has also written and presented over 50 BBC radio programmes and worked on movies with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie.

His latest book ‘Berlin: Imagine a City’ — published in 2014 — is a unique biography of one of the world’s most volatile and creative capitals.