Cardiff School of Education Visiting Speaker Programme, 2015-16

Arts and Humanities Research Group

Llandaff Campus, Cardiff School of Management, Room 0.101, 6.00pm (light refreshments) for 6.30-8.00pm.

The celebrated novelist, Sarah Waters, will be at Cardiff Metropolitan University on Wednesday 21st October, as the first guest of the Cardiff School of Education Research Group Visiting Speaker Programme, 2015-16, on behalf of the Arts and Humanities Research Group. Sarah is an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University and author of six highly acclaimed novels, several of which have been nominated for and have won prestigious awards, as well as being successfully adapted for stage and screen.

Born in Neyland, Pembrokeshire, Sarah Waters was a pupil at Milford Haven Grammar School and went on to study in Kent, Lancaster and London, completing a PhD in English Literature which, partly focusing on late nineteenth-century lesbian and gay historical fictions, helped fuel her early novels of Victorian life, particularly Tipping the Velvet (1998) and Fingersmith (2002). More recently, her novels have been set in the early twentieth century, tracing the lives of characters in the aftermath of war and the social changes wrought in the 1920s and 1940s. Her latest novel, The Paying Guests (2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

‘In Conversation with Sarah Waters’ will include an interview with Sarah conducted by members of Cardiff Metropolitan’s English and Creative Writing teams, followed by an audience Q&A session.

Registration:
Registration for this event is required. Please visit: In Conversation with Sarah Waters Registration

For further details: 029 2041 6577/7078 or cseenterprise@cardiffmet.ac.uk