Diana Evans lives in London and is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA.  She has published short fiction in a number of anthologies, has worked as a journalist and arts critic for several magazines in the United Kingdom, and writes regularly for the Independent and Stage. She won the Orange Prize for New Writers in 2005 for 26a, the story of two twin sisters which, at the beginning, appears as just a well-observed story of a multicultural family in multicultural London at the end of the last century, but quickly becomes a darker and more troubling story of depression, repression and, finally, suicide.
"Suicide is generally seen in a very negative way and, though it is tragic and devastating, I've learnt from losing my own twin that there's a positive and magical side to it as well. It's about a person freeing themselves. It is actually a very courageous thing to do. To leave can be braver than to just stay here and struggle on, never knowing whether you'll ever be happy."

Date:

9 December 2006, Rome, 5.00 pm
12 December 2006, Milan, 6.30 pm

Venue:    Rome, Milan

Fiera della Piccola e  Media Editoria
Palazzo dei Congressi dell’EUR, Piazzale Kennedy - ROME

British Council, Via Manzoni 38 -MILAN

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