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SUMMARY:Frankland Visitor 2024: Joanna Kavenna - "A Reading Life\, a Writi
 ng Life" podcast recording - Joanna Kavenna\, Sally Bayley\, Aida Edemaria
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DESCRIPTION:Joanna Kavenna\, Frankland Visitor at Brasenose College\, pres
 ents a podcast recording and informal panel discussion (with Q and A) with
  acclaimed writer\, Sally Bayley\, and senior feature writer and editor fo
 r The Guardian\, Aida Edemariam.  They will be recording an episode of Sal
 ly's podcast about ‘A stab at the truth’ - life writing\, memoir and w
 riting fiction about real people.  The podcast series is produced by Andre
 w Smith and James Bowen.\n\nSally Bayley is a fiction and non-fiction writ
 er who lives on a narrowboat on the River Thames in Oxford. Sally is a Lec
 turer in English at Hertford College\, and also teaches academic writing\,
  literature\, film and creative writing for the Sarah Lawrence visiting pr
 ogramme at Wadham College. From 2018-2020 she was a Royal Literary Fund Fe
 llow and in 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literatu
 re. \n\nAida Edemariam has worked as a journalist in New York (Harper's Ma
 gazine)\, Toronto\, and London\, where she is a senior feature writer and 
 editor for The Guardian. Her first book\, The Wife's Tale\, was named a Fi
 nalist for the prestigious Governor General's Award for Nonfiction in Cana
 da.\n\nJoanna Kavenna is a prize-winning author of several critically accl
 aimed works of fiction and non-fiction including ZED\, The Ice Museum\, In
 glorious\, The Birth of Love and A Field Guide to Reality. Her novel Inglo
 rious won the Orange Award for New Writing\, and her novel The Birth of Lo
 ve was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Joanna Kavenna's writing has appea
 red in The New Yorker\, London Review of Books\, The New York Times and ma
 ny other publications. She was named as one of The Telegraph's Best Writer
 s under 40 in 2010 and as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 
 in 2013. She has held the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony’s Colle
 ge\, Oxford and the Harper-Wood at St John’s College\, Cambridge.\n\nhtt
 ps://readinglifewritinglife.podbean.com/\nSpeakers:\nJoanna Kavenna\, Sall
 y Bayley\, Aida Edemariam
LOCATION:Brasenose College (Platnauer Room )\, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
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SUMMARY:Learning to Listen - Aida Edemariam
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DESCRIPTION:The Wife’s Tale is a 'beautiful\, complicated [and] sensual 
 account'\, according to Ondaatje prize judge and novelist Michèle Roberts
 . Its 'original form and newly minted language create a strong\, delicate 
 structure embodying her grandmother’s spirit and will to survive.' The b
 ook tells the story of Aida's grandmother\, Yetemegnu\, through her marria
 ge to a cleric and poet two decades older than her\, fascist occupation\, 
 and the rise and fall of Haile Selassie.\n\nAt Wolfson\, Aida will talk ab
 out The Wife’s Tale and explore the following questions: How do you reco
 rd the life in English of a woman who did not speak English? How do you do
  justice to her singular voice\, while also providing the context that inf
 orms that singularity? How do you tell the history of a rich and ancient c
 ulture\, as far as possible on its own terms? What do you listen to and wh
 en do you really start to hear?\nSpeakers:\nAida Edemariam
LOCATION:Wolfson College (Leonard Wolfson Auditorium)\, Linton Road OX2 6U
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