Professor Graeme Harper
Professor Graeme Harper is a novelist and leading academic.
Graeme is the Director of the National Institute for Excellence in the Creative Industries (NIECI) and Professor of Creative Writing at the Bangor University (UK). He is a founding member of the Higher Education Group of the National Association of Writers in Education.
Graeme is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Co-Editor (with Dr Owen Evans) of the journal Studies in European Cinema,and Associate Editor (with Prof Simon Roodhouse, Ed., & Debi Hayes, Associate Ed.) of the Creative Industries Journal. Graeme is also an honorary visiting professor (Professor of Creative Writing) at the University of Bedfordshire.
You read more about Graeme on the Bangor University website.
Panos Karnezis
Panos Karnezisis is an award winning author.
Panos Karnezis was born in Greece in 1967. He studied engineering and worked in industry, before then returning to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Little Infamies (2002) is a collection of connected short stories set in Greece, The Maze (2004), a novel set in Anatolia in 1922 and The Birthday Party (2007).
The critic Garan Holcombe praised Panos' work, noting:-
"It is difficult to overestimate the achievement of someone who writes a good story in another language. For that person to write something of resonance and wit is nothing short of miraculous. To the ranks of those who, like Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov have produced great work in the English language, we must now add another: the Greek writer, Panos Karnezis."
Panos Karnezis will be signing copies of his work during the lunchtime interval.
You can read more about Panos Karnezis at the British Council Contemporary Writers Site.
