UEA Reader in Poetry, George Szirtes, has won this year’s Best Translated Book Award for his translation from the Hungarian of László Krasznahorkai’s novel ‘Satantango’, which is published by Atlantic in the UK and New Directions in the USA. The award is worth $5,000 and was announced at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York on Friday. […]
Archives for May 2013
Edward Hogan shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award
‘Daylight Saving’ by UEA alumnus Edward Hogan has been shortlisted for the 2013 Branford Boase Award for the best debut children’s novel. The award is worth £1,000 and this year’s chair of judges is the Guardian’s children’s books editor Julia Eccleshare. The winner will be announced on 11th July at a ceremony in London. Edward […]
‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure’ by CD Rose
‘The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure’ is the first book by UEA Creative Writing graduate, CD (Chris) Rose, and is to be published by Melville House in both the UK and the USA next year. Chris (pictured) graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA (Prose Fiction) in 2007 and was shortlisted earlier this year for […]
Jean McNeil shortlisted for Canadian National Magazine
UEA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, Jean McNeil, has been nominated for the 2013 Canadian National Magazine Awards for ‘Ice Diaries: a Climate Change Memoir’. Jean (pictured) is the author of ten books of fiction, travel, literature and poetry, most recently the novel ‘The Ice Lovers’, which is set in the Antarctic. Her work has […]
‘A Place In The Country’ by W.G. Sebald
‘A Place In The Country’ is a newly translated collection of essays by the late W.G. Sebald and is published today by Hamish Hamilton. Sebald (pictured) joined UEA in 1970 as a lecturer in German Literature and became Professor of European Literature in 1987. He was a founding Director of the British Centre for Literary […]
George Szirtes wins CLPE Poetry Award
UEA Reader in Poetry, George Szirtes, has won this year’s CLPE Poetry Award for ‘In The Land of Giants’, his first book of poems for children since ‘The Red All Over Riddle Book’ in 1997. The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education launched the award in 2003, and previous winners have included John Agard, Grace […]