Los Angeles, Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton is set to chronicle her life and career in her first book, “Material Evidence”, which will present her story in an unconventional format inspired by the way memory works.
“A trail of breadcrumbs through the forest. “The objects she contemplates in her enchanting book vibrate with meaning and memory, and through that contemplation she brings us the story of life. The Scottish star’s memoir will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the fall of 2028, the publication house announced on Instagram. And an essay in wonder: I hope that by the time it closes, its reader might feel affirmed and recharged with energy to value the difference between that elusive spirit that we each, uniquely, constitute, which changes constantly–evolving and developing–and that solid matter which stays the same in its essence–and consistently repays and feeds us, the world around us and all the things in it that make up our singular lives,” the 65-year-old said.
“Rather than moving chronologically from childhood to the present, the book proceeds object by object: a christening dress, a letter, a wooden leg, a sweatshirt, a length of embroidery silk, a photograph,” said FSG. FSG president and publisher Mitzi Angel, who will edit Swinton’s book, said she has long admired the actor’s “unique way of seeing things”. I couldn’t be more delighted that Tilda Swinton joins FSG with this extraordinarily unusual and moving book,” she said.
Swinton began her film career in the 1980s with British filmmaker Derek Jarman, appearing in films including “Caravaggio”, “The Last of England” and “The Garden”. She earned wider recognition for her performance as Isabella of France in Jarman’s “Edward II” and later played the title character in Sally Potter’s “Orlando” . She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a ruthless corporate lawyer in “Michael Clayton” .
