College of Arts and Humanities
A Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Event
This event is part of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Public Lectures and Events series
SpeakerKamila Shamsie
Speaker's BiographyKamila Shamsie is the author of seven novels. The most recent, Home Fire, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017 and won the Women’s Prize 2018. A God in Every Stone was shortlisted for the Baileys Prize, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Three of her novels have received awards from Pakistan’s Academy of Letters. Kamila Shamsie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2013 was named a Granta Best of Young British Novelist. She grew up in Karachi and now lives in London.
From: 22 Nov 2018, 7:30 p.m.To: 22 Nov 2018, 9 p.m.
Location: Great Hall, Bay Campus
Swansea University Centenary Lecture Series
Curated and introduced by Professor in Creativity, Owen Sheers
Over the last twenty years Kamila Shamsie has established herself as one of the most vital and interesting novelists at work today . Her books, often grand in scope yet always emotionally intimate, have captured the minds and hearts of readers across the world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and winner of this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction, join Kamila as she discusses her latest novel, Home Fire with Swansea University’s Professor in Creativity, Owen Sheers. A re-telling of Sophocles’s Antigone in a contemporary landscape of jihad, a security state and the pressures of radicalisation upon family, love and friendship, Home Fire is a tour de force that powerfully illustrates how fiction can not only capture the present moment but also present the most challenging of its questions with empathy and insight.
Followed by a Q&A and book signing
Brave and brilliant....Shocking and strangely beautiful. - Sunday Times
This is a *FREE EVENT in association with Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities - The festival, now in its fifth year, is led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy. This partnership draws together the three major bodies dedicated to supporting and promoting humanities research in the UK and internationally.
*BOOKING IS STILL REQUIRED IN ORDER TO ATTEND THE EVENT
Book Online: https://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/en/great-hall-literary-events.htm?id=58009
Tel: 01792 604900 / 604999
Books available to purchase on the night from Cover to Cover.
Contact: Cultural Institute (Email: cultural-institute@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792295190
Website: https://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/en/great-hall-literary-events.htm?id=58009
Event created by: m.t.hughes