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November 5th, 2009

Fiction and Reality: Writing Novels in a World Weirder Than Anything You Could Make Up

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Forum for Philosophy

November 5th, 2009

Fiction and Reality: Writing Novels in a World Weirder Than Anything You Could Make Up

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Lionel Shriver

This event is jointly organised with Standpoint magazine

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6.30-8.00pm | Thursday 5 November 2009 

Speaker
Lionel Shriver, Novelist and journalist

Chair
Daniel Johnson, Editor of Standpoint

Lionel Shriver is a novelist and has written for The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Guardian. Born in the US, Shriver has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast. She is married to a jazz drummer and is based in London and New York. Her seventh novel, the Orange prize-winning We Need to Talk About Kevin, explored the challenges of contemporary motherhood and the spiritual burdens of contemporary childhood through a remarkable story of a Columbine-style school massacre. Shriver has a monthly column in Standpoint.

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