These three acclaimed authors have been novel-writing, painting, publishing, translating or writing plays and lyrics and active in public life for decades. Known for their bold, often unsettling ideas, join them for science fiction from Luxembourg, blurred fact, fiction and fantasy from Sweden, and, a picaresque romp through Europe from the Czech master of satire and the strange.
With:
Anne-Marie Reuter (Luxembourg)
Sara Stridsberg (Sweden)
Jáchym Topol (Czechia)
CHAIR: Tim Beasley-Murray
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About Tim Beasley-Murray: Associate Professor of European Thought with UCL’s BASc Programme. He is also Director of the PhD Programme in Creative Critical Writing, and Academic Director of the new Creative Humanities BA. Tim’s research embraces literature, philosophy and political theory and deals with European culture broadly, especially French, German, Russian, and Czech and Slovak. His latest book is Critical Games investigates how play and seriousness intertwine in European literature and academia, revealing the ethical stakes when fiction crosses into real life and criticism takes creative, risky forms.
