‘Lazarus is Dead’ is the new novel by UEA alumnus Richard Beard and is published today by Harvill Secker. Richard graduated from the Creative
Writing MA in 1995 and has since published four novels: ‘X20’ (1996), ‘Damascus’ (1998), ‘T…
Archives for August 2011
Re-Drafted: The Absolutist
John Boyne gives an interesting glimpse of his editorial process working on his new novel, The Absolutist.
A Moment of Mishearing
Some time in the nineteenth century, the Tagore family, located in the spacious mansion Nilmoni Tagore had built in Jorasanko in North Calcutta, acquired a piano.
Eight UEA writers nominated for Guardian’s ‘Not the Booker’ prize
Eight graduates of the UEA creative writing programme have been nominated for this year’s Guardian ‘Not the Booker’ prize, which is decided by public vote. They are Richard Beard (MA 1995) for ‘Lazarus is Dead’, Anne Enright (MA 1987)
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Anjali Joseph shortlisted for Vodaphone Crossword Book Award
UEA writer Anjali Joseph has been shortlisted for this year’s Vodaphone Crossword Book Award, the biggest private sector book prize in India. Her
novel ‘Saraswati Park’ is nominated in the Fiction category that fellow UEA graduate Neel Mukhe…
Joe Dunthorne’s new novel
‘Wild Abandon’ is the second novel by UEA alumnus Joe Dunthorne and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Joe graduated from UEA’s
undergraduate programme in 2004 and from the Creative Writing MA in 2005, when he was the winner of the i…