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Archives for 2015
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 […]
Ian McEwan, Neel Mukherjee and Emma Healey longlisted for IMPAC Award
Novels by three UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s €100,000 (£71,300) International Impac Dublin Literary Award. Ian McEwan (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1971, is nominated for The Children Act, which was published by Jonathan Cape in 2014. Neel Mukherjee, a graduate of the 2001 Creative Writing MA, […]
#PleaseRetweet by Emily Benet
#PleaseRetweet is the new novel by UEA alumna Emily Benet and is published this week by HarperImpulse. Emily (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature in 2002. Her debut book, Shop Girl Diaries, began as a blog about working in her mother’s chandelier shop and won the CompletelyNovel Author Blog Awards in 2010. Her second book, […]
David Almond shortlisted for Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
A Song For Ella Grey by UEA alumnus David Almond has been shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Published in 2014 by Hodder, A Song For Ella Grey was earlier this year shortlisted for The Bookseller’s inaugural YA Book Prize. David (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English and American Studies […]
Julianne Pachico in The New Yorker
Honey Bunny, a short story by UEA writer Julianne Pachico, is featured in this week’s edition of The New Yorker, alongside an interview with the author. The story is one of a collection of linked short stories, The Lucky Ones, that has recently been acquired for publication in 2017 by Faber & Faber in the […]
Neel Mukherjee and Amit Chaudhuri longlisted for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
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 […]