Tolkien Lecture 2023
PAST EVENT | 16 May 2023 18:00 - 16 May 2023 19:30
This year's Pembroke Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature will be delivered by award-winning author and translator Maria Dahvana Headley.
Headley is a New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of eight books. Her most recent book, Beowulf: A New Translation, was named as a book of the year by The Atlantic Monthly, NPR, Vox, The Irish Times, The Guardian, the New Statesman, and more. It won the 2021 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Related Work. She has written for adults and teenagers; her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, and Shirley Jackson Awards and for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize; and she has published essays on gender, chronic illness, politics, propaganda, and mythology.
Previous speakers of the series include Kij Johnson (2013), Adam Roberts (2014), Lev Grossman (2015), Terri Windling (2016), V.E. Schwab (2018), and Rebecca F. Kuang (2022).
The event will take place on Tuesday 16th May 2023 at 6pm. For more details and to register for the event, please visit Eventbrite here.
Pembroke members can register here.
A recording will be made available on YouTube after the event.
Tolkien Lecture 2023
PAST EVENT | 16 May 2023 18:00 - 16 May 2023 19:30
This year's Pembroke Tolkien Lecture on Fantasy Literature will be delivered by award-winning author and translator Maria Dahvana Headley.
Headley is a New York Times-bestselling, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of eight books. Her most recent book, Beowulf: A New Translation, was named as a book of the year by The Atlantic Monthly, NPR, Vox, The Irish Times, The Guardian, the New Statesman, and more. It won the 2021 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Related Work. She has written for adults and teenagers; her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Nebula, and Shirley Jackson Awards and for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize; and she has published essays on gender, chronic illness, politics, propaganda, and mythology.
Previous speakers of the series include Kij Johnson (2013), Adam Roberts (2014), Lev Grossman (2015), Terri Windling (2016), V.E. Schwab (2018), and Rebecca F. Kuang (2022).
The event will take place on Tuesday 16th May 2023 at 6pm. For more details and to register for the event, please visit Eventbrite here.
Pembroke members can register here.
A recording will be made available on YouTube after the event.