Our Lady of the Nile, the first novel by Rwandan author Scholastique Mukasonga, which was translated by UEA alumna Melanie Mauthner, has been shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. The novel was originally published by Gallimard in France in 2012, and Melanie’s translation is published by Archipelago Books of New York. Melanie (pictured) graduated […]
Archives for April 2016
Anne Enright shortlisted for Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
The Green Road by UEA alumna Anne Enright has been shortlisted for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, which is worth £30,000 to the winner. Anne (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1987 and was last year announced as the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. She is the author of nine […]
Reader, I Married Him, edited by Tracy Chevalier
Reader, I Married Him is a collection of short stories edited by UEA alumna Tracy Chevalier and has just been published by The Borough Press. The collection includes new work by Helen Dunmore, Susan Hill, Tessa Hadley and Emma Donoghue and is being published to mark Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary year. Tracy, who graduated from the […]
Gone Cat by Sam Gasson
Gone Cat: The Silent Witness is the first novel by UEA alumnus Sam Gasson and is published this week in German translation by LYX Egmont as Gone Cat: Die stumme Zeugin. It is the publisher’s lead crime title. Sam graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2005 and has since worked […]
Consumed by Abbie Rushton
Consumed is the second novel for children by UEA alumna Abbie Rushton (nee Todd) and is published by Atom Books this week. Abbie graduated from the UEA BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2008 and now works in publishing, where she edits literacy resources for primary schools. She was a winner of the […]
Tim Clare, Tasha Kavanagh and Gavin McCrea longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize
Novels by three UEA alumni have been longlisted for this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner: The Honours by Tim Clare, Things We Have in Common by Tasha Kavanagh, and Mrs Engels by Gavin McCrea. Tim (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2004 and published his first book, the memoir We Can’t […]