Award-winning comedian David Sedaris will be coming to Manchester in summer 2024 as part of a new UK tour, it has been announced.
The best-selling American author and satirist will be back in the North West for the first time since he performed in Salford and Liverpool in 2022.
He will be speaking at the Bridgewater Hall on Tuesday July 9, where he will read unpublished stories, sign books, and take questions from his audience.
Radio 4 listeners will be familiar with Sedaris’s hugely popular annual show – ‘Meet David Sedaris’ – which has been running since 2011.
A five-time Grammy award nominee and winner of the Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, he has written 18 books – with more than 16million copies in print across 32 languages.
His most recent bestseller, Happy-Go-Lucky (2022), brings a humorous spin to subjects ranging from Serbian flea markets to the tribulations of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The book, according to the New York Times, showcases Sedaris’s ability to take the most “unusual or taboo topic, such as death or incontinence,” before unleashing “a blast of tenderness that catches you off guard”.
He has previously been described by Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt – now a roaringly popular TV satire on the state of the NHS – as “the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses”.
Tickets are on sale now, with prices ranging from £39-£49.
Feature image from Heike Huslage-Koch via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED).
