Two UEA alumnae have been shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club ‘Slightly Foxed’ Best First Biography Prize, which is worth £3,500 to the winner. Sarah Knights is nominated for Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett, which was published by Bloomsbury in May, while Lyndsey Jenkins is nominated for Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr, which […]
Archives for July 2015
Anne Enright longlisted for Man Booker Prize
The Green Road by UEA alumna Anne Enright, which was published by Jonathan Cape in May, is among the 13 titles included on the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Anne (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1987. Her first book, a collection of short stories called The Portable Virgin, was […]
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What disassociates when it’s a long way from the sea –
matters don’t go back to the water no more, they lost the
connection.
‘The Mark and the Void’ by Paul Murray
The Mark and the Void is the new novel by UEA alumnus Paul Murray and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001, and published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First […]
Link the Worlds and Flights of Freedom
Suzanne Joinson reflects on being translated in Myanmar
Translating Myanmar
Link the Worlds opened up Myanmar and its writers to the world.
Voices from Myanmar
Translations of work by two Burmese writers, Nay Myo and Min Khite Soe San.
‘The Dark Light’ by Julia Bell
The Dark Light is the new novel for young adults by UEA alumna Julia Bell and is published by Macmillan Children’s Books this week. Julia graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 1996 and was the co-editor with Paul Magrs of The Creative Writing Coursebook, published by Macmillan in 2001. Her two previous novels […]
‘Top Of The House’ by Andrew Towers
Top Of The House is the first novel by UEA alumnus Andrew Towers and is published this week by Corsair. Andrew grew up and lives in Hartlepool, where he currently works as a bingo caller. He studied English Literature at University College, London before graduating from UEA with an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in […]
Steve Waters on Radio 3
Two plays by UEA Senior Lecturer in Scriptwriting, Steve Waters, are being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this summer. Set in the 1730s, Scribblers is a new 90 minute play that focuses on the relationship between young playwright Henry Fielding and the First Minister Robert Walpole. It stars Niamh Cusack, David Troughton and Carl Prekopp, and […]