We are pleased to invite you to an evening with UK writers Alastair Bonnett and Kathleen Jamie that will take place on 2 December 2017 at 19.00 at N.A. Dobrolyubov Library in Moscow (Smolenskaya square 13/21). The talk will be chaired by literary critic Aleksander Gavrilov. This event is part of the 19th Non/Fiction Book Fair.
Join UK writers Alastair Bonnett and Kathleen Jamie to discuss their books about places, from hidden geographies around the world to Scotland’s dramatic landscapes. The writers will also discuss the process of writing about places and the writer’s role in the process.
Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning Scottish writer and poet. Travel literature and nature are primary influences within her work, much of which is concerned with the animals and landscapes in her native Scotland. Alastair Bonnett is Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University. Bonnett’s books explore restricted areas, microstates and ghost cities and are written with an almost scientific attention to detail.
This event will be held in English with simultaneous interpretation in Russian.
Entrance is free. Registration is required.
This event is part of the UK-Russia Year of Science and Education 2017.
Alastair Bonnett
Alastair Bonnett has been Professor of Social Geography at Newcastle University for more than 20 years. His scientific interests vary from geopolitics, sociology, national and cultural identity to problems of globalisation, migration, self-identification, race conflicts and their solutions. He is the author of ten books and more than a hundred of social scientific publications.
Key work: The Idea of the West, 2004; What is Geography?, 2008; Beyond the Map: Unruly Enclaves, Ghostly Places, Emerging Lands And Our Search For New Utopias, 2014; New Views: The World Mapped Like Never Before, 2017.
Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie was born in the west of Scotland in 1962. She is a poet and essayist. Her poetry collections include The Overhaul (2012), which won the Costa Poetry Award and The Tree House (2004), which won the Forward Prize. Her non-fiction includes Findings (2005) and Sightlines (2002), both important contributions to a new genre of nature writing. Her most recent poetry collection The Bonniest Companie (2015) won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. Jamie is Chair of Poetry at Stirling University and lives in Fife.
