UEA’s bi-annual Literary Festival has just announced its return for Autumn 2020 through an apt renaming to UEA Live. To combat the issues presented by social distancing, UEA will be hosting a plethora of fascinating author discussions over livestream. Similarly, this year marks the 50th anniversary of Creative Writing at UEA with CW50, something that…
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Elizabeth Strout at the Autumn Literary Festival 2019
Elizabeth Strout, American novelist and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Olive Kitteridge, spoke at the Arthur Miller Institute’s International Literary Festival 2019 to present her new book, Olive, Again. The new novel traces the much-loved Olive into her seventies and eighties and takes the form of thirteen interconnected but discontinuous short stories. Peggy Hughes, from…
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Mary Beard at the Autumn Literary Festival 2019
Mary Beard has become something of a household name over recent years; whether we know her from her television appearances, books, or lectures, she is undoubtedly one of the most influential contemporary figures in the world of classics. As a woman, one could argue that this is quite an achievement, especially as the humanities subjects…
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Tracy Chevalier at the Autumn Literary Festival 2019
The day Tracy Chevalier received the letter of acceptance confirming her place at UEA, she received a phone call from her sister telling her to go up to the roof of her London apartment building. As she climbed the steps to the open sky, she was greeted with a panorama of some seventy- five hot…
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Elizabeth Macneal at the Autumn Literary Festival 2019
In her own words, Elizabeth Macneal’s ‘The Doll Factory’ is a novel about ‘dreaming’, ‘yearning’ and ‘ambition.’ She appeared as the first guest at the Autumn Literary Festival. Rebecca Stott began the talk with Macneal by reading a description of her latest book and praised the originality of the storyline. Macneal then dove right in…
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Christopher Andrew at the 2018 Autumn Literary Festival
Marking the beginning of the 26th Arthur Miller International Literary Festival at the UEA, Christopher Bigsby was joined by intelligence historian Christopher Andrew on Wednesday October 3. Andrew is an Emeritus professor in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge History Faculty. His publications include numerous papers and ‘doorsteps’ of books on…