Monday, 3 September 2012

Sensing Place - Nottingham Contemporary


Sensing Place

Ben Okri & Jon McGregor

7th September, 8pm – 9.30pm

Nottingham Contemporary

What exactly is meant by the term a ‘sense of place’? To some, it is about geography, landscapes and identities. Others speak of events, memories, feelings, and the people that live in particular places. For some readers it is what marks out great writers – those who are able to transport us and give us that sense of ‘being there’.

Booker Prize winning novelist Ben Okri and Impac Literary Award winner Jon McGregor, in conversation with Dr. Corinne Fowler, Lecturer in Post-Colonial Literature at Leicester University, will discuss what ‘sense of place’ means to them and how it affects their approach to story-telling.

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