OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
About Alexandra Pringle:
Writer, editor, literary agent and publisher. She was the fourth person to join Virago Press in the ’70s. As agent she represented Deborah Levy, Ali Smith, Maggie O’Farrell, Amanda Foreman and others. She was editor-in-chief of Bloomsbury Publishing for more than two decades, working with bestselling authors Khaled Hosseini, Donna Tartt and Elizabeth Gilbert; Women’s Prize winners Ann Patchett, Madeline Miller, Kamila Shamsie and Susanna Clarke; Booker Prize winners George Saunders and Margaret Atwood, and Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Alexandra comes from the Afriats, an ancient family of Berber Jewish traders whose caravans travelled from Timbuktu to Mogador bringing spices, indigo and gold. She is writing a memoir, Caravan, to be published by Canongate in the UK and Simon & Schuster in the US. She is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Alexandra will be in-conversation with Claire Wilcox discussing her progression from publisher to writer, and from working with authors to trying to be one.
