About this Event
About the event:
This year’s Northcliffe Lecture, hosted by UCL’s Department of English Language and Literature, will be given by Ian McEwan. In conversation with Professor John Mullan, he will discuss his most recent novel, What We Can Know, and reflect on his earlier fiction. Discussion will range from his earliest stories across five decades of fictional experiment.
About the speaker:
Ian McEwan CH CBE is one of the leading novelists of modern times, as well as a screenwriter, playwright and writer of short stories. His career began in the late 1970s, with disconcerting, experimental short stories and his first novel, The Cement Garden. In the sixteen novels that followed, including works like Enduring Love, Atonement and On Chesil Beach, he has married formal innovation with wide popular appeal. In works like The Child in Time, Saturday and Machines Like Me, he has been a novelist of ideas, as he is in his latest novel, What We Can Know. Set a century in the future, it centres on a literary historian researching our own troubled times. It is, as he says, ‘a novel about history, and what we can know of it’. Amongst his many honours and prize, he won the Booker Prize in 1998 for Amsterdam. In 2008, he was awarded an honorary degree by UCL.
About the chair:
John Mullan is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL.
Access profile:
There is step-free access into the lecture theatre.
There are designated spaces for wheelchair users outside the lecture theatre and within the lecture theatre.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cruciform Lecture Theatre LT1, Cruciform Building, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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