Event overview
With Rebecca Stott and George Szirtes
Rebecca Stott is a writer, historian, broadcaster and Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at UEA. She is the author of two novels, Ghostwalk and The Coral Thief, and several books of creative non-fiction including Darwin and the Barnacle, Darwin's Ghosts and Oyster. Her recent memoir, In The Days of Rain, won the 2017 Costa Biography Prize.
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to this country with his family as a refugee after the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. He has written numerous books of poetry, including The Slant Door, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and Reel, which won the 2004 TS Eliot Prize. He has received honorary degrees from Goldsmiths and UEA. The Photographer at Sixteen, a memoir of his mother, is his first substantial prose work.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Feb 2019 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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