Great Writers Inspire at Home: Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie is the acclaimed author of six novels. Born in Pakistan, she now lives in London. She will read from her most recent novel, A God in Every Stone (2014). Mostly set in London and Peshawar in the first decades of the twentieth century, the novel explores ‘the communality [and] contradictions … of empire’ (Tabish Khair, Financial Times). In an opening session, reading groups who have read the novel will be able to offer responses to their experiences of reading it, after which Shamsie will give a reading and be in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and the audience.
Date:
4 May 2017, 17:00 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2017)
Venue:
Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Seminar Room, 3rd Floor
Speakers:
Kamila Shamsie,
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Faculty of English Language and Literature
Organisers:
Erica Lombard (University of Oxford),
Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
erica.lombard@ell.ox.ac.uk
Host:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Great Writers Inspire at Home
Topics:
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
http://www.writersmakeworlds.com/workshops
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Erica Lombard
