The Faculty of Arts is organising a public reading and book signing event featuring Jim Crace on Thursday at 7pm at the Aula Magna, Valletta Campus, Old University Building, Valletta.
Crace will be reading from one of his novels and answering questions about his work and about the place of fiction and creative writing in the world today.
Crace is one of the most garlanded novelists writing in the UK today. His work enjoys a loyal readership drawn to the particular quality of his fiction, where bleakness and redemption, landscape and character blend in memorable stories that live long in the imagination.
He has won, among other awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (twice), the Whitbread Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
He was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his most recent novel, Harvest (2013), for which he won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, awarded by Yale University, in 2014. Among his most celebrated novels are Continent (1986), The Gift of Stones (1988), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), The Pesthouse (2007) and Harvest (2013).
The Faculty of Arts at the University have Crace as writer in residence this semester, during which he is helping with the launch of a creative writing programme (http://www.themanbookerprize.com/feature/jim-crace-has-fun) and of a refereed online journal for creative writing that will be launched next spring.