The Lives of Others, the second novel by UEA alumnus Neel Mukherjee, has been shortlisted for the $50,000 (£33,000) DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Published by Chatto & Windus last year, The Lives of Others was shortlisted for both the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award and was the winner earlier […]
Archives for November 2015
Anne Enright wins Irish Novel of the Year Award
The Green Road, the latest novel by UEA alumna Anne Enright, has been named as the Irish Novel of the Year (also known as the Eason Book Club Novel of the Year) at the 2015 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. Anne (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1987. Her first […]
David Almond wins Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
A Song for Ella Grey by UEA alumnus David Almond has been announced as the winner of this year’s Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. A retelling of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in north-east England, the novel was published by Hodder in 2014 and was earlier this year shortlisted for The Bookseller’s inaugural YA […]
Anne Enright and Tasha Kavanagh shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards
Novels by UEA alumnae Anne Enright and Tasha Kavanagh have been shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Book Awards. Anne Enright is nominated for the Costa Novel Award for The Green Road, published Jonathan Cape, while Tasha Kavanagh is nominated for the Costa First Novel Award for Things We Have in Common, published by Canongate. Tasha […]
David Mitchell at UEA
The novelist David Mitchell 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 new novel Slade House. Mitchell (pictured) is the author of the novels Ghostwritten, number9dream, Cloud Atlas, Black Swan Green, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de […]
The Nine-Nine Divine Skill
Once inserted, this little bell rang in an unlimited supply of women.
The Other Singapore Stories
A dozen women were wrestling with very male issues throughout this translation process.
After Hours by Molly Naylor and John Osborne
After Hours is a new six-part comedy drama co-written by UEA graduates Molly Naylor and John Osborne. Based around an internet radio station, and starring Jaime Winstone and Ardal O’Hanlon, it is broadcast on Sky1 on Mondays at 9.30pm. Molly (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) in 2008 and her first […]
Notas de Viaje
Writers in the Philippines are writing in English and Filipino, as well as in the 173 regional languages, but literary translation is an incipient art in the archipelago.
Sara Taylor shortlisted for Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award
The Shore, the debut novel by UEA Creative Writing alumna Sara Taylor, has been shortlisted for this year’s Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award. Sara (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2013 and is currently studying for her PhD in Creative & Critical Writing at UEA. The Shore […]