In April 2022, author Diana Evans is coming to Brussels for a writing residency at Passa Porta: International House of Literature. During her residency, she will work on a collection of essays and a new novel set in London during the incipit of Brexit times.
By dint of the recently published French translation, Evans will discuss her latest novel Ordinary People (2018) with Nigerian author Chika Unigwe, whose debut novel Fata Morgana (2007) was also recently translated into French. In addition, she will conduct a guest seminar at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the course Contemporary Literature in English (Prof. Elisabeth Bekers).
Click here to learn more about the event, and here to read a short interview in context of Evans' writing residency in Brussels.
BIO
Diana Evans was born in London in 1972. Daughter of a British-Nigerian couple, she spends part of her childhood in Lagos. She becomes a dancer in a company in Brighton, a journalist, and in 2005 publishes her first novel, 26A, which receives the prestigious Orange Award for New Writers. Ordinary People (Chatto & Windus, 2018) is her third novel. During her residency at Passa Porta, she will be working on an essay and a novel that takes place in contemporary London, following a group of interconnected characters.