Three distinguised writers welcomed to Bath Spa University
27th April 2010
Bath Spa University welcomes three distinguished new colleagues to the School of Humanities & Cultural Industries’ creative writing department:
Paul Evans
Paul Evans writes a Country Diary for the Guardian and a Nature Watch column for the Guardian Weekly. He writes and presents programmes for the BBC’s Natural History Unit on Radio 4 and has written two Afternoon Plays.
Celia Brayfield
Celia Brayfield
Familiar to the University as an energetic, assiduous and helpful external examiner, Celia Brayfield is an English writer whose novels have been acclaimed for the wit, narrative mastery and acute social observation with which they address modern themes. She is the author of four non-fiction books and nine novels. Celia is also a journalist, contributing regularly to the The Times, The New Statesman and other newspapers, periodicals and magazines.
Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller
Novelist Andrew Miller was born in Bristol and has lived and worked in several countries, including Spain, France, Holland and Japan. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and finished a PhD in Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 1995. His first novel ‘Ingenious Pain’ was published in 1997 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Italian Grinzane Cavour Prize. It was followed by Casanova (1998), a fictional portrait of the infamous libertine and writer. Both novels are currently being adapted for film. Andrew has since been shortlisted for both Booker and Whitbread prizes. His latest novel is ‘One Morning Like a Bird’.
These colleagues will join the University in the new academic year.
