Eight books by UEA alumni have been included on the longlist for The Guardian’s annual Not The Booker Prize. All the nominated novels, as well as the eventual winner, are selected by readers of the newspaper. The seven titles are: Acts of the Assassins (Vintage) by Richard Beard (MA 1995), The Longest Fight (Myriad) by […]
Archives for 2015
UEA launches British Archive for Contemporary Writing
UEA has today announced the launch of the British Archive for Contemporary Writing (BACW), which contains the extensive personal archive of the Nobel Laureate, Doris Lessing, and literary material from other prominent authors such as Naomi Alderman, Tash Aw, Malcolm Bradbury, Amit Chaudhuri, J.D. Salinger, Roger Deakin, Lorna Sage (pictured), WG Sebald and the playwright […]
Sue Healy on BBC Radio 4
‘Mussels’, a new short story by UEA alumna Sue Healy, is one of the final three selected for this year’s BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition and will be broadcast at 7.45 this evening. Read by Ballykissangel actress Dervla Kirwan, it will be available on BBC iPlayer throughout August. Sue (pictured) graduated from the Creative […]
Sarah Knights and Lyndsey Jenkins shortlisted for Biographers’ Book Prize
Two UEA alumnae have been shortlisted for the Biographers’ Club ‘Slightly Foxed’ Best First Biography Prize, which is worth £3,500 to the winner. Sarah Knights is nominated for Bloomsbury’s Outsider: A Life of David Garnett, which was published by Bloomsbury in May, while Lyndsey Jenkins is nominated for Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr, which […]
Anne Enright longlisted for Man Booker Prize
The Green Road by UEA alumna Anne Enright, which was published by Jonathan Cape in May, is among the 13 titles included on the longlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize. Anne (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1987. Her first book, a collection of short stories called The Portable Virgin, was […]
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What disassociates when it’s a long way from the sea –
matters don’t go back to the water no more, they lost the
connection.
‘The Mark and the Void’ by Paul Murray
The Mark and the Void is the new novel by UEA alumnus Paul Murray and is published by Hamish Hamilton this week. Paul (pictured) graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2001, and published his first novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes in 2003. This was shortlisted for the Whitbread First […]
Link the Worlds and Flights of Freedom
Suzanne Joinson reflects on being translated in Myanmar
Translating Myanmar
Link the Worlds opened up Myanmar and its writers to the world.
Voices from Myanmar
Translations of work by two Burmese writers, Nay Myo and Min Khite Soe San.