Tag: Jane Austen

Interview with award-winning novelist Okechukwu Nzelu: ‘I wanted people to empathise with those whose experience is different’

  Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith interviews award-winning writer and Desmond Elliott Prize nominee, Okechukwu Nzelu, and discusses his debut novel, Nnenna Maloney, literary inspirations like Bernadine Evaristo, balancing writing with teaching and ensuring that underrepresented voices are heard in literature.

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Jane Austen’s The Watsons at the Menier Chocolate Factory

  Jo Hemmings

Laura Wade’s witty theatrical rewrite of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, The Watsons, comments on female authorship, agency and joyfully sends up actors, writers and pseudo-intellectualism.

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