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University of East Anglia
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Maggie Gee | In her capacity as writing fellow at East Anglia
, MG
edited an anthology entitled For Life on Earth, which collects anti-war texts first published in ephemeral locations. |
Textual Production | Doris Lessing | Scholar Elizabeth Maslen
notes the complexity of DL
's bibliography: she used many different publishers, and appeared in many different paperback imprints, some of them since swallowed up by different names. Maslen, Elizabeth. Doris Lessing. Northcote House. 62 |
Reception | Rose Tremain | When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT
was among them (along with Pat Barker
, Martin Amis
, Salman Rushdie
... |
Occupation | Alison Fell | In 1986 AF
was a writing fellow at the New South Wales Institute of Technology
in Sydney, . In 1998 she held the Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia
, in the School... |
Occupation | Maggie Gee | Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG
worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press
at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at... |
Occupation | Selima Hill | SH
ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust
, and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a... |
Employer | Fleur Adcock | In LondonFA
worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(which bought her a few hours of solitude each day to write in) until she took the plunge and became a... |
Employer | Rose Tremain | In the year of her first marriage RT
became a full-time writer. In 1988 she became a part-time lecturer on the Creative Writing course at the University of East Anglia
, of which she was... |
Employer | Angela Carter | AC
taught part-time in the Writing MA programme at the University of East Anglia
in Norwich. Sage, Lorna. Angela Carter. Northcote House. x |
Employer | Bernardine Evaristo | Apart from other writing-life activities like reading her poems in London and on tour, BE
has a successful career as an academic teacher of creative writing. She has worked in the UK at the University of East Anglia |
Employer | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia
(having previously been Visiting Fellow... |
Employer | Ali Smith | After leaving Cambridge AS
secured a job lecturing at the University of Strathclyde in 1990, where she remained for two years before being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Germanà, Monica, and Emily Horton, editors. Ali Smith. Bloomsbury. xv |
Education | Naomi Alderman | NA
returned to Britain from New York, having been accepted for a creative writing MA course at the University of East Anglia
. This felt more necessary than anything I'd done in my life. Alderman, Naomi. “Coming out: Naomi Alderman on leaving Orthodox Judaism behind”. theguardian.com. |
Education | Anne Enright | AE
proceeded from Trinity College, Dublin, to the University of East Anglia
in England for an MA in Creative Writing. Bracken, Claire, and Susan Cahill, editors. “Introduction”. Anne Enright, Irish Academic Press, pp. 1-12. 1-2 |
Timeline
1963: The University of East Anglia was founded...
Building item
1963
The University of East Anglia
was founded in Norwich.
15 June 2007: Tatiana de Rosnay, born in France in 1961...
Writing climate item
15 June 2007
Tatiana de Rosnay
, born in France in 1961 to an English mother and Russian father, published her first and most famous English-language novelSarah's Key, which in 2015 had sold nine million copies around the world.
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
Texts
Gee, Maggie, editor. For Life on Earth. University of East Anglia, 1882.