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Drowning Worlds: Julia Armfield in conversation with Florian Mussgnug
03 December 2024, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
Julia Armfield speaks to Florian Mussgnug as part of the Writers of the Anthropocene seminar series.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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UCL Anthropocene
Location
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IAS Common GroundGround Floor, South Wing, Wilkins BuildingGower StreetLondonWC1E 6BT
About the event:
Novelist Julia Armfield will read from her brilliantly audacious dystopian retelling of King Lear, Private Rites (2024). Her work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023.
This event is part of the Writers of the Anthropocene seminar series.
About the Speaker
Julia Armfield
Fiction Writer
Julia's work has been published in Granta, The White Review and Best British Short Stories 2019 and 2021. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She was longlisted for the Deborah Rogers Award 2018, and won the White Review Short Story Prize 2018 and a Pushcart Prize in 2020. She is the author of salt slow, a collection of short stories, which was longlisted for the Polari Prize 2020 and the Edge Hill Prize 2020. Her debut novel, Our Wives Under The Sea, was shortlisted for the Foyles Fiction Book of the Year Award 2022 and won the Polari Prize 2023.