If you are looking for the hottest ticket in town, the sold-out play of the year, albeit in a very small theatre (the King’s Head in Islington), or a vicious, no-nonsense send-up of Britain’s modern-day ruling class, Who’s The Daddy? is on its way to be proclaimed as the most controversial new play of the [...]
Actor | Designer | Director | Editor | Events | Modern | Political | Theatre | War | Writer“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship” Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer of broad international reputation who has been living in France, has won the first ever Man Booker International Prize recently. He has received the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on 27 June [...]
Critic | Culture | Editor | History | Inspiration | International | Poetry | Political | Traditional | War | WriterJonathan Coe is the winner of the £30,000 BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2005 for his book Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson published by Picador. B.S. Johnson was a brilliant working-class writer, compared to Joyce and so wedded to innovation that he cut holes in the pages of his [...]
Art | BBC | Biographer | Critic | Innovation | Novelist | WriterThis is the first time ever that the London Eye has been used for a live arts festival and was sold out well in advance of its opening. It seems an African summer breeze has blown in over the UK, with weather temperatures soaring, bringing with it a feast of unforgettable experiences. How ironic then [...]
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