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Booked to appear
JEWISH Book Week is at the
Royal National Hotel,
Bedford Way, WC1 from February 23-March 2.
The following events feature Camden and Islington writers:
Tuesday February 26, 8.30pm
Colin Shindler talks with Benny Morris on the War in 1948.
Bafta-winner Colin Shindler is a TV writer and producer. He won the prize for A Little Princess and produced the series Lovejoy and Madson, and the film Buster.
Thursday February 28, 1.00pm
Linda Kelsey speaks with Judith Summers and Kerry Fowler on age.
Minneapolis-born Linda Kelsey began her successful acting career in the 1970s with parts in TV shows The Rockies and Emergency! Her break came when she was cast in the role of Billie Newman in the series Lou Grant, for which Kelsey received five consecutive Emmy award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.
Sunday March 2, 5pm
Zadie Smith and Adam Thirlwell In praise of Diasporas.
Zadie Smith is an international bestseller and award-winning fiction writer.
She is best known for her first novel, White Teeth, which she wrote while studying English literature at Cambridge University. It won the Whitbread and Guardian First Book Award and was made into a series on Channel 4.
Zadie Smith continues to write fiction and her other novels – Autograph Man and On Beauty – have been highly successful.
Sunday March 2, 6.30pm
Lisa Appignanesi and Susie Orbach talk about the Mad, The Sad and the Bad.
Lisa Appignanesi was born in Poland. She lectured in European studies before becoming director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. She has produced several television films and has written five novels including The Dead of Winter.
Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist and writer. A visiting professor at London School of Economics, she lectures in women’s psychology and co-founded the Women’s Therapy Centre. Her book, Fat is a Feminine Issue, discusses women’s body imagery, from anorexia to obesity, and she helped Princess Diana conquer her eating disorder.
Sunday March2, 6.30pm
Janet Suzman takes a glimpse at Bernard Malamud with Philip Davis.
Janet Suzman is an actress and director whose work has predominantly been with The Royal Shakespeare Company where she debuted as Joan of Arc in The War of The Roses in 1963. Since then she has played many female heroines including Ophelia in Hamlet and Portia in The Merchant of Venice. The first play she directed was Othello, in South Africa, and more recently Hamlet in 2006.
Suzman is set to play Volumnia in Coriolanus in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
For full details go to: www.jewishbookweek.com/2008/ |
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