Margaret Atwood Delivers Empson Lecture Series

Margaret Atwood is a distinguished writer, poet and literary critic, and the recipient of numerous awards and prizes.

Renowned Canadian author and critic Margaret Atwood is giving six lectures on writing and the writing life in the English Faculty's Empson Lecture Series.

Running from Thursday 27 April until Friday 5 May, the free lecture series - which is open to members of the public as well as to any member of the university - will explore how writers see themselves in relation to their works and to their audience. The talks will also consider the question "what are fiction and poetry for?"

Entitled "Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writers Writing about Writers", the series of six lectures will take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall, on the university's Sidgwick Site. Each lecture will start at 5:30pm, and will consider a different aspect of the topic:

Thursday 27 April
"Who Do You Think You Are?"

Friday 28 April
"The Slippery Double"

Tuesday 2 May
"The Great God Pen"

Wednesday 3 May
"The Wizard of Oz, Mephisto & Co."

Thursday 4 May
"Nobody to Nobody"

Friday 5 May
"Negotiating with the Dead"

The Empson Lecture Series is a biennial event organised by the university's English Faculty. It is named after William Empson, a Cambridge undergraduate during the 1920s who was an influential exponent of new approaches to literary analysis.

For further details about the lecture series, please contact Dr Sally Bushell or Jenni Tucker at the Faculty of English (Tel: 01223 335080).

Further information:
English Faculty home page
Margaret Atwood Information Web Site