Novels by UEA alumnus Neel Mukherjee and UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature Amit Chaudhuri have been included on the longlist of eleven titles selected for the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Neel (pictured) is nominated for his second novel, The Lives of Others, which was published by Chatto & Windus last year and […]
Archives for October 2015
Richard Dawkins at UEA
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday evening, when he will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby about his career and the second volume of his autobiography, Brief Candle In The Dark: My Life In Science. The first volume, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a […]
Woman Who Brings the Rain by Eluned Gramich
Woman Who Brings the Rain: A Memoir of Hokkaido, Japan is the first book by UEA alumna Eluned Gramich and is published this week by New Welsh Review on its eBook imprint New Welsh Rarebyte. Eluned’s memoir was the winner of the inaugural WWF Cymru Prize for Writing On Nature & The Environment at the […]
Vince Cable at UEA
Former government minister Vince Cable will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this Wednesday evening, when he will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby about his career and his recent book After The Storm: The World Economy and Britain’s Future. Cable read Natural Science and Economics at Cambridge University, where he was President […]
David Hare at UEA
The playwright Sir David Hare will be appearing at the UEA literary festival this evening, when he will be interviewed on stage by Chris Bigsby about his career and his recent memoir The Blue Touch Paper. Sir David was born in Sussex in 1947, and is the author of twenty-nine plays for the stage, seventeen […]
Richard Beard shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize
‘Acts of the Assassins’, the latest novel by UEA alumnus Richard Beard, has been shortlisted for the 2015 Goldsmith’s Prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. The novel was published earlier this year by Harvill Secker. Richard (pictured) graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1995 and has since published five other novels: ‘X20’ […]
‘The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain’ by John Boyne
The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain is the new novel for children by UEA alumnus John Boyne and is published by Doubleday Children’s this week. John graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1995, and returned as a Creative Writing Fellow in 2004, and as a tutor on the Creative Writing […]
A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail by Jenna Butler
A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail is a new collection of autobiographical essays by UEA alumna Jenna Butler, and is published by Wolsak and Wynn this week. Jenna was born in Norwich, but has spent most of her life in Western Canada. She graduated from the University of Alberta […]