The ceramicist and writer on the poetry of Louise Glück, the music of Max Richter and the best secret meeting spot in London
Born in Nottingham in 1964, Edmund de Waal is an artist, master potter and the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, which won the Costa prize for biography in 2010. He became keenly interested in ceramics at an early age and his second book, The White Road, follows his journey through the history of porcelain, back to its origins in China. De Waal’s latest book, Letters to Camondo, is a sequence of imagined letters to a Parisian collector of beautiful objects. It’s the basis for his new show, Lettres à Camondo, at Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, until 15 May 2022.