Through a Child’s Eyes: Baltic and UK Perspectives on Fiction Writing
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Through a Child’s Eyes: Baltic and UK Perspectives on Fiction Writing
12 Apr 2018, 13:00 - 14:00
The Cross-Cultural Hub
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- English
Claire Armitstead chairs this discussion about writing stories from childhood, or from the perspective of a child. Recent novels by Latvian writer Nora Ikstena and Lithuanian author Alvydas Šlepikas have both explored childhoods lived out under oppressive regimes – Ikstena’s novel Soviet Milk looking at three generations of women over 20 years, and Šlepikas looking at the orphans known as ‘wolf children’, who came to Lithuania at the end of the Second World War. Rebecca Stott’s memoir In the Days of Rain tells the story of her life in an ultra-hardline Christian fundamentalist creationist sect. Here these writers discuss the similarities and differences in their work, and the effects of childhood on later life.
Contributors
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Chairperson
Associate Editor
Culture, at The Guardian
Claire Armitstead is Associate Editor, Culture, at the Guardian. She began her journalistic career as a trainee reporter on the South Wales Argus....
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Speaker
Baltics Author of the Day (Latvia)
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Speaker
Writer
Alvydas Šlepikas (b. 1966) is one of the most multi-talented contemporary Lithuanian writers today, moving among the worlds of literature, theatre,...
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Rebecca is an author and academic. She teaches English Literature and Creative Writing in the University of East Anglia and writes fiction and...
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