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Location : University of East Anglia Date : 4 Apr 2013 – 6 Apr 2013 Organiser : Dr BJ Epstein Contact :  b.epstein@uea.ac.uk Contact Website : www.nordictranslation.net The second Nordic Translation Conference will take place Thursday 4 - Saturday 6 April 2013 at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, as part of the university's 50th anniversary celebrations. The keynote speakers are Andrew Chesterman , Riitta Oittinen , Ástráður Eysteinsson , and...

Location : UEA Drama Studio Date : 4 Dec 2012 – 8 Dec 2012 Organiser : UEA Drama Ticket Price : £6.00 / £4.00 (concessions) The University of East Anglia’s third year Drama students are proud to present a unique two-part adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s ‘Jane Eyre’ this December. Reinventing traditional ‘period drama’, this large ensemble cast brings together original music, dance and a brand new script to produce a chillingly dark adaptation of the classic tale. Each...

Location : University of East Anglia Date : 9 Feb 2013 – 10 Feb 2013 Ticket Price : £55 (students £35) Contact :  UEABiographyConference@gmail.com Turning Points: the Event, the Collective, and the Return of the Life in Parts ueabiography.com What kind of life do we get when depth overshadows breadth? In serious biography, more and more, it means a partial life: a focus on what is called the ‘collective’ or group, and (in what is swiftly becoming the new...

Location : University of East Anglia Date : 23 Mar 2013 – 24 Mar 2013 Ticket Price : Full Rate: £55 | PG Rate: £37.50 A two-day translation symposium at the University of East Anglia The fifth Postgraduate Translation Symposium at the University of East Anglia aims to examine translation as a form of literature in its own right: since Lawrence Venuti’s influential work on the translator’s visibility (1995), much progress has been made in the academic study of translation in...

Location : White Lion Cafe (NR2 1PX) Date : 19 Nov 2012 – 15 May 2013, 2pm Contact : BJ Epstein A free series of lunchtime workshops in Norwich city centre. Download full details on the series .

Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Trust Fundraiser (Wed 28 Nov 2012) In 1970 Malcolm Bradbury co-founded (with Angus Wilson) the UEA Creative Writing MA, the first course of its kind in the UK. He taught on the programme until his retirement in 1995, and counted among his many successful students the future Booker prizewinners, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro and Anne Enright. A prolific and influential scholar and author, he wrote over forty books of non-fiction and criticism, as well as numerous...

‘And Andrea’ is a new short story by current UEA Creative Writing MA student David Whelan and is published in the current edition of nth position – www.nthposition.com. Earlier this year David (pictured) published stories in the Valley Press ‘Front Lines’ anthology and the journals Five, Prole 8, Litro, and the New Voices section of Untitled Books, which this year also featured 2005 graduate Emily Midorikawa, and 2006 graduate Liz Adams. ‘The Visit’, a short story by recent graduate Buku...

Catch-up with a video recording of A D Miller's visit to the University of East Anglia on Monday 12 November 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of  Snowdrops , A D Miller in conversation with Henry Sutton (LDC) Monday 12 November 2012 In association with the Booker Prize Foundation Born in London in 1974, A D Miller studied literature at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University. From 2004 to 2007 he was Moscow correspondent for the  Economist...

‘Another Country’, the second novel by UEA writer Anjali Joseph, has been longlisted for this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize, which is worth $30,000 to the winner. Anjali (pictured) graduated from the Prose Fiction strand of the Creative Writing MA in 2008, and is currently completing her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA, where she teaches on the undergraduate Creative Writing programme. ‘Another Country’ was written for her PhD, and was published earlier this year by 4th Estate....

Current UEA student Colette Sensier will be reading this evening at the launch of ‘Things That Have Happened’, an anthology of new writing published by Treehouse Press in association with Flight 2012, a mentoring scheme for five young writers organized by Spread the Word and run in partnership with the Poetry School. The event happens at Keats House in London and will also feature two of the mentors, Bernardine Evaristo and Shaun Levin. Colette (pictured) was born in Brighton in 1988 and...