FORA.tv Speaker - Philip Hensher

Philip Hensher is a writer whose novels include Kitchen Venom, which won the Somerset Maugham award, The Mulberry Empire, and most recently The Northern Clemency shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with the winner to be announced in October. Hensher was was among Granta 20 Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. Hensher is a columnist for the Independent as well as Professor of Creative Writing at Exeter University.