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SUMMARY:Fiction Writing: Elleke Boehmer in Conversation with Kate Kennedy 
 - Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)\, Dr Kate Kennedy (Unive
 rsity of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:This event is the fourth in the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
  / Simon Fraser University Graduate Liberal Studies Jim Babcock Lecture Se
 ries in Writing\, which will take place in Michaelmas 2024. \n\nProfessor 
 Elleke Boehmer will be in conversation with Dr Kate Kennedy on the topic o
 f ‘Writing Fiction\; Writing Life’. Their discussion will focus on Ell
 eke’s novel The Shouting in the Dark (2015)\, and her short stories\, in
  particular her second collection\, To the Volcano (2019)\, and will explo
 re questions of writing across borders and giving voice. \n\nAttendees are
  encouraged to read the following text in advance of the event:\n\nElleke 
 Boehmer\, The Shouting in the Dark (2015)\nElleke Boehmer\, To the Volcano
  (2019)\n\nProfessor Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in En
 glish at the University of Oxford\, a Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson Col
 lege and Executive Director of the Life Writing Centre. She is a Fellow of
  the Royal Society of Literature\, and of the Royal Historical Society. Sh
 e is also an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College\, Oxford. Since 2023\,
  she has been an Extraordinary Professor in English at the University of P
 retoria\, South Africa\, and in 2024 she is an International Visitor at th
 e University of Adelaide\, Australia. Elleke Boehmer is the author of five
  novels\, including Screens Against the Sky\, shortlisted for the David Hi
 gham Prize\, and The Shouting in the Dark which was winner of the 2018 Oli
 ve Schreiner Prize. She has also written two works of short stories\, incl
 uding most recently To the Volcano. She has published six monographs\, ext
 ending from the field-defining Colonial and Postcolonial Literature: Migra
 nt Metaphors (1995\, 2005)\, to Indian Arrivals 1870-1915 (2015\; biennial
  ESSE prizewinner\, 2016) and Postcolonial Poetics (2018). A second editio
 n of her biography Nelson Mandela was published in 2023. Southern Imaginin
 g\, a literary history of the southern hemisphere\, will appear from Princ
 eton University Press in 2025. Her work has been translated into many lang
 uages.\n\nDr Kate Kennedy is a writer\, cellist\, and BBC broadcaster. Her
  work combines words and music\, in performance\, on the radio and on the 
 page. She is a Research Fellow in Life-Writing at Wolfson College\, Oxford
 \, and Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Her most recent boo
 k\, Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound (2024) is part memoir\, part
  biography: it explores musicians’ relationships to their cellos\, and f
 ollows her journey with her cello as she traces lives and instruments acro
 ss Europe and Russia.\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all.\nSpeakers:\
 nProfessor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)\, Dr Kate Kennedy (Univer
 sity of Oxford)
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