Susannah Clapp, Caryl
Phillips, Bidisha
Angela Carter, actually
Chaired by Anne Chisholm
Twenty years after her untimely death from cancer, novelist Angela Carter
continues to challenge, delight and provoke her readers. Possessed of a sharp
and often subversive intellect, she was a re-maker of fairy tales, an outspoken
feminist and a richly distinctive stylist. In works such as The Magic Toyshop, Wise Children and The Bloody Chamber, she
blends fairy tale and magic realism to explore human sensuality and
conventional femininity with wit and intelligence. Her literary executor, the
theatre critic Susannah
Clapp, who recently published the affectionate memoir A Card from Angela Carter,
joins novelist Caryl
Phillips and writer and broadcaster Bidisha to celebrate
Carter’s work and consider her legacy.
Venue: The Kenneth Clark
Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House
The Royal Society of Literature
Somerset House, Strand
London WC2R 1LA
020 7845 4676
www.rslit.org
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