English & Comparative Literary Studies News
Alumna Katy Whitehead has won the 2017 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize
She was awarded the prize for Adventures in Synthetic Fun, an essay exploring the concept of ‘synthetic fun’ coined in the 1960s by Jeremy Sandford, and the changing nature of fun in an era of increasing automation, disputed oppression, widespread affective labour, illusory meritocracy, costly social mobility, divisive politics, and a degraded imagination.
Katy studied on the BA English Literature and Creative Writing and the MA in Writing in the department.
alumna Sohini Basak is the winner of the 2016 Beverly Series for her debut collection of poetry, We Live in the Newness of Small Differences.
Creative Writing alumna Sohini Basak is the winner of the 2016 Beverly Series for her debut collection of poetry, We Live in the Newness of Small Differences.
Sohini originally from Barrackpore, India studied at Warwick on the MA in Writing in 2013 and was taught by various Warwick academics including Professor David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry. On hearing of Sohini’s success, David said:
‘The key to making poems is surprise in language. I remember with pleasure Sohini Basak’s poetry when I was teaching her poetry at Warwick. Her use of language, line and image always surprised and delighted.
It is no surprise therefore that she has gone on to achieve great things with her poetry. The winning of this prestigious prize and the publication of her first collection is an inspiration to student-poets at Warwick.’
You can access the full press release here, and the Warwick Writing Programme site also.
Professor Dan Katz article in TLS
Please see the following link for Dan Katz article on Ben Lerner The Hatred of Poetry
Combined and Uneven Development - new publication
Comparative Literature Studies devotes their latest forum on Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature, a book collectively authored by present and former members of the department. Available here:
AL Kennedy longlisted for Man Booker Prize
Congratulations to AL Kennedy, Associate Professor in the Writing Programme, on the longlisting of her most recent novel, Serious Sweet, for the Man Booker Prize 2016. Reviews include The Observer, The Spectator and the Financial Times. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was twice included in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. She has won awards including the 2007 Costa Book Award and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. Her professional website is here.