LGBT+ History Month Q&A with Tom Crewe

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Tuesday 13th February 2024

17:30

Provost's Lodgings

LGBT+ History Month Q&A with Tom Crewe

Join prize-winning author Tom Crewe for a special Q&A in celebration of LGBT+ History Month.

Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. In 2023 he was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists.

The New Life, his first novel, is an historical imagining of LGBT+ rights in 1890s London. It is the winner of both the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. The novel has been or is being translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

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