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Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan born artist and writer living and working in Britain. She arrived, with her parents in this country at the age of ten. She trained as a painter, completing her MA at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
In 1998 the Royal Academy of Arts, London, highlighted one of her paintings, “Watching the Procession,” for its Summer Exhibition. As a result her work became more widely known. In 2000, the Arts Council of England funded a touring exhibition of her work. Entitled ‘The House of Small Things’, this exhibition consisted of paintings and photographs based on childhood memories. They were the start of what was to become a preoccupation on issues of loss and migration.
She started to write while working at the Ashmolean Museum. Her first novel, Mosquito (2007), set in Sri Lanka, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the Kiriyama Prize. Her second novel is Bone China (2008) and her third, Brixton Beach (2009). Roma’s new novel, The Swimmer, will be published in the UK in April 2010.
When: 3 December 18:00
Where: Biblio-Globus bookstore
In partnership with Phantom-Press publishing house
When: 4 December 16:00
Where: Central House of Artists, Press Centre
In partnership with Phantom-Press publishing house
When: 4 December 20:00
Where: DODO bookshop
Adam Foulds was born and raised in London. He studied English at St Catharine's College, Oxford, and was awarded an MA from the University of East Anglia, where he studied Creative Writing. He has had poetry published in various magazines, including Quadrant and Stand. He received the Harper-Wood Fellowship from St John's College, Cambridge.
His first novel, The Truth About These Strange Times (2007), is about the relationship between Howard, a Scottish loner, and 10-year-old maths prodigy, Saul. It won the 2008 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and a 2007 Betty Trask Award.
This was followed by the long narrative poem, The Broken Word (2008), about Kenya's Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s, seen through the eyes of an English schoolboy. It was shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn-Rhys Memorial Prize and the 2009 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and won a Somerset Maugham Award and the 2008 Costa Poetry Award.
His second novel is The Quickening Maze (2009), a part-historical part-fictional account of the relationship between John Clare, Matthew Allan - the head of Clare's mental asylum, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. It was shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
When: 4 December 17:00
Where: Oval Hall, Library for Foreign Literature
When: 5 December 12:00
Where: Central House of Artists, Literary cafe
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