UEA’s inaugural International Chair in Creative Writing, the Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, has been named as the winner of the 2021 PEN Pinter Prize, which is awarded annually to a writer resident in Britain, the Republic of Ireland, the Commonwealth or former Commonwealth who, in the words of Harold Pinter’s Nobel speech, casts an […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Statement of support for Tsitsi Dangarembga
‘Friends. Here is a principle. If you want your suffering to end, you have to act. Action comes from hope. This is the principle of faith and action.’ Statement by Tsitsi Dangarembga before her arrest on 31 July 2020 On June 24, 2020 the University of East Anglia appointed Tsitsi Dangarembga to the position of the […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga joins UEA as International Chair of Creative Writing
UEA has appointed Booker-shortlisted Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga as its inaugural International Chair of Creative Writing. She will deliver a programme of literary events, classes and workshops across the African continent and in the UK from 2021 to 2022. This new position is one of a number of initiatives timed to mark the fiftieth anniversary […]
CW50 brochure featuring Kazuo Ishiguro and Tsitsi Dangarembga
The UEA Creative Writing programme is fifty years old. During the academic year 2020-21 we will celebrate the past, interrogate the present and spark ideas about the future as we mark five decades as a global leader in creative writing. With a Foreword by UEA alumnus, Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, the brochure below describes some of […]
