Founded in 1970 by the novelists Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson, the UEA Creative Writing programme began with a single student: Ian McEwan. Here McEwan and an array of fellow alumni – Louise Doughty, Tracy Chevalier, Tash Aw, Mona Arshi, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ and Ayanna Gillian Lloyd – recall their time at UEA […]
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Ian McEwan awarded Goethe-Medaille
UEA alumnus Ian McEwan is one of the three recipients of the 2020 Goethe-Institut’s Goethe Medal, an official honour of the Federal Republic of Germany that recognises outstanding contributions to international cultural exchange. The Goethe Medal is traditionally presented in Weimar on Goethe’s birthday, 28 August, and this year’s other recipients are the Bolivian museum […]
Ian McEwan interviewed by Chris Bigsby
From the UEA Literary Festival in Autumn 2014, UEA Creative Writing alumnus and internationally renowned author Ian McEwan joins Chris Bigsby to talk about his novel The Children Act
The Cockroach by Ian McEwan
The Cockroach is a new novella by UEA alumnus Ian McEwan and is published by Jonathan Cape this week. A satire on Brexit, it is his sixteenth work of fiction and the second to be published this year, following the novel Machines Like Me. Ian was the inaugural graduate of the UEA Creative Writing programme […]
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
Machines Like Me is the new novel by UEA alumnus Ian McEwan and is published this week by Jonathan Cape. Ian was the inaugural graduate of the UEA Creative Writing programme in 1971, and published his first collection of short stories, First Love, Last Rites, in 1975. His second novel The Comfort of Strangers (1981) was shortlisted for the […]
