MSt alumnus James Benmore’s novel Dodger, an amusing novel about the life and (mis)adventures of the Artful Dodger (from Dickens’ Oliver Twist) after he returns from deportation to Australia, will be published on 11 April 2013 by Heron Books.
Available at all good bookshops. More information at the book at the Heron Books website.
Clare Morgan (Director, MSt) and Susan Sellers (Professor, English, St Andrew’s University) on
The Ruffian in the Market Place: What Do We Read Fiction For?
“Drawing on literary predecessors as varied as Jane Austen, Henry Miller, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka and P. D. James, Morgan and Sellers will share with the audience the challenges, the solutions, and the excitements of writing such fiction, in relation to their own published and forthcoming work.”
Thursday 21 March 2013, 4.00 pm
Venue: Bodleian, Convocation HouseMore information at the Oxford Literary Festival event page.
MSt tutor George Szirtes has several recent publications:
Poetry
Bad Machine (UK Bloodaxe, 2013)
Bad Machine (UK Sheeps Meadow, 2013)
Poems for Children
In the Land of the Giants (Salt 2012)
Translation
Yudit Kiss: The Summer My Father Died (Telegram)
László Krasznahorkai: Satantango (New Directions, US, TuskarRock, UK)
Co-edited collection
In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on the Poetry, co-edited with Helen
Ivory (Salt, 2012)
MSt student Prajwal Parajuly’s The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories (Quercus, 3 Jan 2013), a collection of stories about Gurkhas, Darjeeling, Kalimpong and the world, was number four on the Amazon “Hot New Releases” on 13 November 2012.
Update: Prajwal will be reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop on 7th February 2013.
The Lady describes his collection as
“A collection of finely crafted, vibrant stories that focus on the minutiae of the life of the Nepalese community in their homeland and abroad. Stylistically reminiscent of Raymond Carver, while at the same time opening a door on to an unfamiliar world.”
The Guardian review speaks of its “energetic play of perspectives” and reviews have appeared in a number of other newspapers and journals.
Read an interview on Republica with Prajwal while he was doing his MSt.
Prajwal’s book is available in bookshops and on Amazon.
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