UEA named among the best for producing award-winning authors
By: Communications
The University of East Anglia (UEA) has been recognised in the top three of a survey of academic institutions awarded the major literary prizes.
UEA’s ranking at third – just behind Oxford and Cambridge – came in research undertaken by Aura Print, which analysed the universities of winners and shortlisted authors of Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022). UEA beat Harvard in America and Trinity College in Dublin.
The University established the first creative writing courses in the UK and since 1991 has produced 29 shortlisted individuals and winners of the major literary prizes.
UEA has educated some of the most celebrated figures in contemporary literature and has benefitted from having forward-thinking influential tutors. The University’s impactful history developing the craft of writing stems from its first Creative Writing course, started in 1970 under the leadership of Sir Malcom Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson. That tradition of creative strength and innovation continues today.
Countless award-winning authors, including Booker Prize winners Ian McEwan, Anne Enright and Nobel Laureate Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, have attended UEA.
UEA’s creative writing courses allow students to nurture their love of storytelling in England’s first UNESCO City of Literature, the birthplace of creative writing in the UK.
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