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Joyce Carol Oates in conversation.
This is an online event hosted by Unique Media. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
“Literature is essential to society in the way that dreams are essential to our lives. We can’t live without dreaming – as we can’t live without sleep.” The legendary American writer and teacher Joyce Carol Oates shares insights from her prodigious body of work and from her latest collection of four new novellas,
Cardiff, by the Sea. In these psychologically daring, chilling pieces, she writes about women facing threats past and present, and reminds us why she is so often praised as one of America s most significant contemporary writers. Joyce Carol Oates will be in conversation with Kirsty Logan.
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FOUR books from Australia are among the contenders for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, with the announcement coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the author’s birth. The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed yesterday. Two of the Australian books are not yet published in the UK. Settings of the books on the list range from Tudor, Victorian and Edwardian England to Borneo, Tasmania, Indonesia, Japan, the US, Russia and East Africa. The 2021 prize was open to books published in the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth during 2020. Those in the running include Hinton by Mark Blacklock, The Tolstoy Estate by Steven Conte, and The Mirror And The Light by Hilary Mantel. The judges said: “Historical fiction has not obeyed any lockdown. Instead, in this year’s new publishing, there has been an explosion of lively ideas and fresh ways of storytelling, with traditional notions of historical fiction stretched and tested.
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The longlist has 11 books in contention for the £25,000 and was revealed on Tuesday.
This year’s longlist includes four books from Australia, two of which are not yet published in the UK.
Hinton, by Mark Blacklock (Granta)
The Tolstoy Estate, by Steven Conte (HarperCollins Australia)
The Year Without Summer, by Guinevere Glasfurd (Two Roads)
A Room Made Of Leaves, by Kate Grenville (Canongate UK, Text Publishing Australia)
Mr Beethoven, by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press)
Afterlives, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury)
A Treacherous Country, by K L Kruimink (Allen & Unwin Australia)
The Mirror And The Light, by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate)
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