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Hill, Charlie

 
9781915789020: The State of Us

Synopsis

“this is no fairy story but a story of human beings”

The State of Us takes the reader from the twitching curtains of suburbia to the deserts of the Middle East, from the interior life of a street photographer to outer space, and back again. With an eye reminiscent of Samuel Beckett, the stories in it are often satirical, sometimes uncompromising and occasionally fabulous. What they have in common is a question - what are we doing? - and an answer that suggests we should look, more closely, at the state of us...

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À propos de l'auteur

Charlie Hill is an internationally-acclaimed author from Birmingham. He has written long and short form memoir, and contemporary, historical and experimental fiction. Charlie has been interviewed by Mariella Frostrup on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book. His work features on the title track of The Birmingham Poets, an album by Matthew Edwards and the Unfortunates. Short stories have been republished by the Ikon Gallery – to complement the show At Home With Vanley Burke – and taught in South Australian schools. He is the co-founder and former Director of a literary festival, the PowWow Festival of Writing, which ran from 2011 to 2017 and featured guests such as Joanne Harris, Alex Wheatle, Stewart Home and Natalie Haynes. He has also appeared at many such events, including Frankfurt’s Literaturm and the Birmingham Literary Festival. As well as writing books, Charlie has been published by the TLS, the Guardian, the Independent on Sunday, the New Statesman and the Big Issue. He has also contributed to Writers’ Rebel. An occasional teacher, Charlie’s focus is on the sentence, with particular reference to Modernist writing. In addition to running workshops for festivals and in universities, Charlie has devised and delivered a Masterclass on Experimental Writing for Arvon. He is a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.

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