The Open Book Festival will take place in Cape Town from 6 to 10 September this year, featuring a number of exciting international authors including Nathan Hill!

Hill was born in Iowa in the United States in 1975 and lives with his wife in Florida. His debut novel The Nix was a New York Times 2016 Notable Book, Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of the Year, a Washington Post 2016 Notable Book and a Slate Top Ten Book. He has been compared to David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen.

The Open Book Festival programme will be released in early August. Keep an eye on The Reading List for details.

Click on the link above for more about The Nix.

Watch a video of Hill chatting about his novel:

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