Event overview
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre presents...Imagination, recreation, resurrection: a conversation with Francis Spufford
These days, there is a branch of Iceland on New Cross Road, just across the way from Goldsmiths; there is a small small brass plaque on the wall outside which commemorates a wartime tragedy. In November 1944, a V2 rocket fell on what was then a branch of Woolworths. It was a Saturday lunchtime: 168 people were killed in an instant. Having taught at Goldsmiths for a dozen years, Francis Spufford walked by that plaque time and again; in his extraordinary new novel, Light Perpetual, he imagines a future for five children who were killed on that terrible day. Francis Spufford’s new novel is, like all of his work, an adventurous and profound book; he is one of our most versatile and fascinating writers. His first novel, Golden Hill, won the Costa First Novel Award, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize; he is also the author of a wide variety of non-fiction, including I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination; The Child that Books Built and Red Plenty. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Feb 2021 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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