Ella Creamer
Writer at Freelance
Books Reporter at The Guardian
Books reporter @guardian + writer, words in @i_D @POLITICOMag @PolyesterZine @monthly
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theguardian.com | Ella Creamer
Wooden carved statues of JRR Tolkien and his wife, Edith, will be unveiled in an East Yorkshire village next month, celebrating the area’s influence on the writer. Tolkien spent nearly 18 months in Hull and East Yorkshire while recovering from trench fever during the first world war, and the area’s landscape is believed to have inspired his works, including The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ella Creamer
Actors Channing Tatum and Pedro Pascal have written poems for a new anthology curated by Canadian musician and poet Mustafa that also includes contributions by the writers George Saunders, Max Porter and Hanif Abdurraqib. The book, titled Nour, explores themes of ceremony, loss and worship. “You told me God wasn’t real/ as we sat in the water in the dark that night/ I couldn’t see your eyes but I could feel the anger/ in the water”, opens Tatum’s poem, extracted below along with Pascal’s.
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Ella Creamer
A new festival of translated literature is being launched in Bristol next week amid a sales boom in translated fiction in the UK. Translated By, Bristol is the brainchild of Polly Barton, author and translator of the award-winning Butter by Asako Yuzuki, and Tom Robinson, owner of Gloucester Road Books, which is organising the festival alongside Barton and another independent Bristol bookshop, Storysmith.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Ella Creamer
‘Where have all the literary blokes gone?” is a question that has popped up in bookish discussions and op-eds from time to time in recent years. Who are this generation’s hotshot young male novelists, the modern incarnations of the Amis/McEwan/Rushdie crew of the 80s? The question flared again this week as writer Jude Cook launched a new press, Conduit Books, which plans to focus, at least initially, on publishing male authors.
‘Full-circle moment’: Candice Carty-Williams joins judging panel as 4thWrite prize opens for entries
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theguardian.com | Ella Creamer
A short story competition run by the Guardian and the publisher 4th Estate is now open to entries from unpublished writers of colour living in the UK and Ireland. The 4thWrite prize, now in its ninth year, offers its winner £1,000, a publishing workshop at 4th Estate and publication of the winning story on the Guardian website.
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💌 spoke to three very lovely couples who got engaged in bookshops or met at book club 💌 https://t.co/iumUulAiIC
A new Ian McEwan novel, What We Can Know, is coming September - set nearly 100 years in the future in a Britain that has become an archipelago after its lowlands are submerged by rising tides. McEwan describes it as “science fiction without the science”: https://t.co/CnIvWQVxhY
spoke to Japan’s #1 bestseller Uketsu – who is anonymous, wears a papier-mache mask and distorts his voice – about his novel Strange Pictures, a mystery horror centred on a series of eerie drawings, which has now been translated into English by Jim Rion https://t.co/NM9dPfNj5Z