Английская Википедия:Andrew Cowan (writer)
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Andrew Cowan (born 1960) is an English novelist and nonfiction author, who directed the creative writing programme at the University of East Anglia in 2008–18.[1] His six novels include Pig (1994).
Biography
Andrew Cowan was born in Corby, Northamptonshire, in 1960, and educated at Beanfield Comprehensive and the University of East Anglia (UEA).[2] He graduated from UEA with a BA in English & American Studies in 1983 and an MA in creative writing in 1985. His teachers on the MA were Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.
He was a tutor for the Arvon Foundation, and later the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at UEA for three years.[3] He was appointed to the UEA faculty in 2004,[4] and was the director of the UEA Creative Writing programme in 2008–18; he was promoted to a chair in 2012.[5] He retired in 2023.[2]
He is also a potter.[6]
Writings
His first novel, Pig (1994), won a Betty Trask Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Authors' Club First Novel Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award, and was shortlisted for five other literary awards.[7] Common Ground (1996) and Crustaceans (2000) both received Arts Council bursaries.Шаблон:Cn What I Know was the recipient of an Arts Council Writers' Award and was published in 2005.Шаблон:Cn His fifth novel, Worthless Men, was published in 2013, and his sixth novel, Your Fault, in 2019.[8]
His creative writing guidebook, The Art of Writing Fiction, was published in 2011, with a revised edition appearing in 2023. His monograph Against Creative Writing was published in 2022.
References
External links
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- Andrew Cowan Archive, University of East Anglia
- Interview with Andrew Cowan: ”Our characters have our DNA”
- Andrew Cowan Interview | Richard Beard
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