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Mastering the art of comic fiction with Philip Hensher
A 2-day course focusing on comic fiction with Booker shortlisted novelist, Philip Hensher.
Author Philip Hensher Photograph: © Simon James
Dates: 3-4 March 2012
Duration: 2 days; Saturday 3 March (10am-5pm) to Sunday 4 March (10am-5pm)
Location: Guardian/Observer offices, 90 York Way, Kings Place, London N1 9GU
Course price: £400 per person
Maximum number of places: 15
Comic fiction – riotous, sly, absurd, inventive, subversive, playful – is the richest way we've yet found to look at the world.
This course will look at the way the world filters through a comic sensibility, explores the language of absurdity, thinks of ways that fiction can pull the rug, and discovers ways both to enjoy and to move beyond conventional patterns of comedy in prose.
The course will take place over two days at the Guardian/Observer offices at Kings Place and will be run by led by Man Booker Prize shortlisted writer, Philip Hensher, who is also Professor of Creative Writing at Exeter University.
Tutor profiles
Philip Hensher is a columnist for the Independent, chief book reviewer for the Spectator and a Granta Best of Young British novelist. His novels include Other Lulus, Kitchen Venom (Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Pleasured, the Booker-longlisted The Mulberry Empire, The Fit, and the Northern Clemency, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has also published a collection of short stories, The Bedroom of the Mister's House. His most recent novel, King of the Badgers, was published earlier this year. Philip lives in South London.
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