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Kazuo Ishigaro: UEA Creative Writing’s most famous graduate

Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, joined the University of East Anglia’s MA in Creative Writing…

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Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, joined the University of East Anglia’s MA in Creative Writing in 1979, graduating the following year.

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Creative Writing Research Group

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Nathan Ashman

Nathan Ashman

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer in Crime Writing
  • Creative Writing Research Group - Member
  • Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group - Member

Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research

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Tiffany Atkinson

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry)

Trezza Azzopardi

Trezza Azzopardi

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer

Tom Benn

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Associate Professor in Crime Writing

Robert Carson

Robert Carson

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Associate Professor
  • CreativeUEA - Steering Committee Member

Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research

Andrew Cowan

Andrew Cowan

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Emeritus Professor

Person: Honorary, Research Group Member

Sian Evans

  • Faculty of Arts and Humanities - Associate Tutor

Person: Academic, Teaching & Scholarship, Research Group Member, Associate Tutor

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Giles Foden

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Professor of Creative Writing

Vesna Goldsworthy

Vesna Goldsworthy

  • East Centre: UEA Centre for the Study of East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Space - Member

Person: Honorary, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member

Andrea Holland

Andrea Holland

Person: Academic, Teaching & Scholarship, Research Group Member

Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Research Group - Member

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Jacob Huntley

Claire Hynes

Claire Hynes

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Associate Professor in Creative Writing

Philip Langeskov

Philip Langeskov

Michael Lengsfield

Michael Lengsfield

  • School of Media, Language and Communication Studies - Associate Professor
  • Film, Television and Media - Member

Jean McNeil

Jean McNeil

  • ClimateUEA - Steering Committee Member

Person: Member, Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research

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Tessa McWatt

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Ben Musgrave

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Lecturer in Scriptwriting

Iain Robinson

Iain Robinson

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Helen Smith

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Honorary Lecturer

Henry Sutton

Henry Sutton

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Professor of Creative Writing and Crime Fiction

Ian Thomson

Ian Thomson

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Associate Professor in Creative Non-Fiction

Steve Waters

Steve Waters

  • School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Professor of Scriptwriting
  • ClimateUEA - Member

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  7. Kazuo Ishigaro: UEA Creative Writing’s most famous graduate

    In this report, UEA Journalism students talk to the School about their most famous graduate. Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, joined the University of East Anglias MA in Creative Writing in 1979, graduating the following year.

  8. Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA - FindAPhD

    We are home to prize-winning scholars and translators of literature and drama from all periods, and the school is famous as a pioneering centre for creative writing. We welcome interdisciplinary projects and actively encourage cross-institutional collaboration.

  9. Creative Writing Research Group - University of East Anglia

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  10. School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing

    In our corridors you'll bump into world-class writers about literature and into the people who are writing literature today: prose, poetry, plays. It's that thrilling meeting of criticism and creativity – reading and writing, thinking and doing – that makes our School such a special place.