Max Porter
Max Porter is the author of four novels, including the Sunday Times #1 bestseller Shy, the Booker Prize longlisted Lanny and the multi award-winning Grief is the Thing with Feathers. His work has been translated into 33 languages.
Porter’s screen adaptation of Shy, starring Cillian Murphy, is currently in post-production with Netflix. He is also the author of The Death of Francis Bacon, praised as ‘a miniature masterpiece’, the short film All of this Unreal Time and the pamphlet It’s Going to Be a Bright New Day with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.
Currently one of our Associate Artists he frequently collaborates with musicians, song-writers, artists and theatre-makers. Porter is currently writer in residence in a UK prison and in 2025 chaired the judging panel for the International Booker Prize.
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Max Porter: ‘Loss of control is the most beautiful thing’
In an in-depth interview the writer discusses political convictions, power in collaboration and what lies ahead.
Max Porter: 'I feel wildly lucky to do this for a living’
Author Max Porter talks about his novel Shy in this 2023 interview ahead of a special reading/performance of the work here at the Southbank Centre.