Michael Nott has won the 2024 Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize for Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life (Faber).

On Monday evening, I attend an intriguing event on translation, at London’s oldest bookstore, Hatchards. They are launching a translation book club, and this is the very first session.

Michael Nott has won the 2024 Hatchards & Biographers’ Club First Biography Prize, worth £2,500, for Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life (Faber). Judges praised the “no-holds-barred life of one of ...