In collaboration with the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, we are delighted to invite you to a literary event with acclaimed UK novelist Maggie Gee as our guest.
Maggie Gee will talk about and read from her work addressing environmental issues – Where are the Snows? (1991), The Ice People (1998), The Flood (2004). She will focus on ways in which contemporary fiction can respond to issues of environmental concern, and also discuss her more recent work with a delegated group of students from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The event is supported by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. It will be held in English and will be followed by a discussion with the audience.
During her visit to Thessaloniki, Maggie Gee will also lead a creative writing workshop with students from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Maggie Gee was born in Poole, Dorset, and educated at state schools and Somerville College, Oxford. After working in publishing as an editor, she took a research job at Wolverhampton Polytechnic, where she completed a PhD.
Her first published novel was Dying, in Other Words (1981), an experimental black comedy in which a supposedly dead woman triumphantly rewrites the story of her own death. In 1982 Maggie Gee was selected as one of the original 20 'Best of Young British Novelists'. Since 1981 and the publication of her first novel, she has published a number of successful books including her most recent, My Animal Life, published in 2010.
Maggie Gee is a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been a member of the Society of Authors' Committee of Management and the government Public Lending Right Committee, and from 2004-2008 was the first female Chair of Council of the Royal Society of Literature. She is Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University and lives in London with her husband, the writer and broadcaster, Nicholas Rankin.
