UEA’s first creative writing student, Ian McEwan (pictured), will be returning to the university on 21st October as part of the Autumn 2012 International Literary Festival. The festival opens on September 26 with Sebastian Faulks, and will continue…
Archives for August 2012
The Man On The Brink
“After a great deal of cross-checking we’ve found the explanation for this anomaly. You are not a homo sapiens.”
The Cat
A group translation into British dialects done as part of the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School 2012
Tattoo
A new girl started working in the tattoo parlour that summer and turned the whole street on its head.
My Gentle Twin
I look at your face: so pale, so peaceful, and I’m conscious of that old, familiar feeling and am suspicious of it, even as I feel it.
‘The Liars’ Gospel’ by Naomi Alderman
‘The Liars’ Gospel’ is the third novel by UEA alumna Naomi Alderman and is published by Viking this week. Naomi completed the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2003, when she was that year’s winner of the David Higham Award. Her fir…
In conversation with Jennifer Tuckett
Tilly Lunken interviews UEA alumna Jennifer Tuckett
Sarah Ridgard and Natasha Soobramanien shortlisted for Amazon Rising Stars 2012
Debut novels by UEA graduates Sarah Ridgard and Natasha Soobramanien have been selected for the latest Amazon Rising Stars 2012 competition. Over the course of the year Amazon selects twelve new novels, which are presented in groups of four. Custom…
The Old People’s Home
The sound of cowbells keeps me awake at night, but eventually I fall asleep, I suppose, because the same sound wakes me up again every morning… Translation from the Norwegian, from the 2012 BCLT Summer School.
Horses, horses, despite everything the light is still pure
In April 2011, after the earthquake, tsunami, and fallout of radioactive material, we started a journey.