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Multiple Identities: telling life stories through objects. Evening lecture: Alexandra Pringle in conversation with Claire Wilcox
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.
Date:
29 April 2025, 17:30
Venue:
Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details:
The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. Accessibility information: https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/venue/large-conference-and-dining-spaces/
Speakers:
Prof Claire Wilcox (University of the Arts, London / Oxford Centre for Life-Writing),
Alexandra Pringle (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Organising department:
Oxford Centre for Life-Writing
Organiser:
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Organiser contact email address:
admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Hosts:
Prof Claire Wilcox (University of the Arts, London / Oxford Centre for Life-Writing),
Dr Alice Little,
Oxford Centre for Life Writing
Booking required?:
Recommended
Booking url:
https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/multiple-identities-evening-lecture
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Alice Little,
Eleri Watson
