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Best Selling novel translated by Ann Gagliardi

11/05/2011

Twice Born', the bestselling Italian novel by Margaret Mazzantini, has been translated by UEA Creative Writing alumna Ann Gagliardi and will be published this month by Viking Penguin in the USA and Oneworld in the UK. Originally from the USA, Ann g...

‘The English German Girl’ by Jake Wallis Simons

10/05/2011

‘The English German Girl’ is the second novel by Jake Wallis Simons and is published this month by Polygon. Born in London in 1978, Jake was awarded a first class degree in English from St Peter’s College, Oxford, before undertaking a PhD in ...

New Novel by Jane Harris

05/05/2011

‘Gillespie and I’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Jane Harris and is published by Faber and Faber today. Jane graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1992, and completed her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 1995. Betw...

D.W.Wilson nominated for national award.

04/05/2011

UEA writer D.W. Wilson has received three nominations in the Fiction category of the annual Canadian National Magazine Awards. These are ‘The Persistence’, which was published in Prairie Fire, and two stories written during his MA year: ‘The ...

Agnes Lehoczky wins poetry prize

28/04/2011

UEA writer Agnes Lehocsky is to be awarded the inaugural Jane Martin Poetry Prize by Girton College, Cambridge. Agnes (pictured) is a Hungarian-born poet and translator who completed UEA’s Creative Writing (Poetry) MA with distinction in 2006. Sh...

Anne Enright’s new novel

26/04/2011

‘The Forgotten Waltz’ is the new novel by UEA alumna Anne Enright and is published by Jonathan Cape this week. Anne graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 1987 and published her first collection of stories, ‘The Portable Virgin’, in 1991...

Amanda Hodgkinson’s debut novel

25/04/2011

‘22 Britannia Road’ is the first novel by UEA Creative Writing alumna Amanda Hodgkinson and is published by Fig Tree this week. Amanda, who graduated from the Prose Fiction MA in 2001, now lives in south west France, where she is a columnist fo...

Anjali Joseph nominated for Desmond Elliott Award

24/04/2011

‘Sarawati Park’, the debut novel by UEA writer Anjali Joseph, has been included on the longlist of ten novels for the 2011 Desmond Elliott prize, which is worth £10,000 to the winner. The contenders will be narrowed down to a shortlist of thre...

Flip by Martyn Bedford

11/04/2011

'Flip' is the first novel for young adults by UEA alumnus Martyn Bedford and has recently been published by Walker Books in the UK and Wendy Lamb Books (Random House) in the US. A second young adult novel, 'The Fallen One', will be published next y...

‘The Godless Boys’ by Naomi Wood

01/04/2011

‘The Godless Boys’ is the debut novel by Naomi Wood and is published by Picador today. Naomi (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2008 and is currently studying for her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. She was rec...