Novelist Maggie Gee will read from and discuss her work in Rome and Milan. She was born in Poole, Dorset, in 1948 and educated at state schools and Somerville College, Oxford where she completed two degrees in English. 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 20 'Best of Young British Novelists' by the Book Marketing Council and became Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
The Flood (2004), has recently been published in Italy by Edizioni Spartaco, as Il Diluvio; it is a dystopia, but this time with a contemporary urban setting, and explores the effects of a modern-day flood on a city and its inhabitants.

'I write for the joy of the language and the form, and to pay the mortgage. I also write because life is fascinating, beautiful, and short. I want to record my experience, and my brief attempts at understanding it, for others, while I can.' (Maggie Gee)

Dates:

19 April 2006, Rome
20 April 2006, Milan

Venue:

Rome, Libreria Minimum Fax - Via della Lungaretta 90/e
Milan, British Council - Via Manzoni 38

Information:

Press Office, Edizioni Spartaco: tel. 0823 797063
Libreria Minimum Fax: tel. 06 5894710
British Council: tel. 02 77222220