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Frances Hardinge - Philippa Pearce Lecture 2018

Frances Hardinge - Philippa Pearce Lecture 2018
  • Mary Allen Building, Homerton College
    Mary Allen Building, Homerton College
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  • 19/04/2018 17:00 - 19/04/2018 17:00

FRANCES HARDINGE - PEOPLING THE DARK The prestigious Philippa Pearce Lecture is an annual event that celebrates excellence in literature for children. It provides a platform for the very best children's authors, poets and illustrators to reflect on their art. Always thought-provoking, the lectures have tackled such topics as the significance of time, the place of fear, and what poetry is for. The lectures were established in 2007 by the family, friends and colleagues of the highly distinguished children's author, Philippa Pearce. They attract a regular and wide-ranging audience of academics, writers, publishers and lovers of children's literature. Frances' highly acclaimed children's novels include Fly By Night, Twilight Robbery, the Carnegie-shortlisted Cuckoo Song and Costa Book of the Year winner, The Lie Tree. For her Philippa Pearce lecture, she will explore unseen and half-seen figures of menace and malice in Philippa Pearce's The Shadow Cage, and other children's literature. This lecture sees the Philippa Pearce Lecture celebrating its tenth anniversary. It takes place on Thursday, 19 April at 5.00 pm, in the Mary Allen Building, Homerton College, Cambridge. A wine reception follows. The Philippa Pearce Lectures are held in association with Homerton College, Cambridge.

About Frances Hardinge

Frances Hardinge spent a large part of her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company. However, a few years later a persistent friend finally managed to bully Frances into sending a few chapters of Fly By Night, her first children's novel, to a publisher. Macmillan made her an immediate offer. The book went on to publish to huge critical acclaim and win the Branford Boase First Novel Award. She has since written many highly acclaimed children's novels including, Fly By Night's sequel, Twilight Robbery, as well as the Carnegie shortlisted Cuckoo Song and the Costa Book of the Year winner, The Lie Tree.