Jim Crace. Photograph © Andrew Bainbridge.
Jim Crace, winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the Whitbread Award and the James Black Tait Memorial Prize, will be returning to Malta for the local launch of his novel The Melody, published earlier this year.
The book launch will take place on Wednesday 21 November at 18:00 at the Arts Lecture Theatre, University of Malta Msida Campus.
Jim Crace will speak about The Melody’s connection with Malta and its roots in his time as Writer in Residence on the Creative Writing Programme of the Faculty of Arts, in the autumn of 2014. The author will be signing copies of his book.
The event, organised by the Creative Writing Programme of the Faculty of Arts, is open to the public. A reception will follow the book launch.
Born in Hertfordshire, raised in London and resident in the English Midlands, Jim Crace is the author of such acclaimed novels as Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999) and Harvest (2013). He has been Writer in Residence at the University of Iowa, well-known for its distinguished Creative Writing courses, and the University of Austin, Texas, which also holds his archive. His work has been consistently praised by critics for a distinctive style that combines precision and lyricism, as well as for the evocation of complex and intense connections between place and character, loss and redemption – all of which is amply evident, too, in The Melody.
If you would like to reserve a seat for the event, please contact Ms Corinne Fenech by email or call on +356 2340 3610. Reservation of a seat is solicited only for logistical reasons and attendance without prior notification is allowed.