Norwich

The Polish city of Krakow has just been granted the status of UNESCO City of Literature – only the second non-Anglophone city to receive the honor, and the first in continental Europe. This puts Poland’s southern metropolis and historic capital into the same bracket as Edinburgh, Norwich, Dublin, Reykjavik and the somewhat more curious choice [...]

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With London’s Southbank Centre planning to recreate its Saison Poetry Library as a National Centre for Literature, and Edinburgh already established as a UNESCO City of Literature, England’s Norwich is now taking its turn to put forward its claim as a key literary center for the British Isles. The Writers’ Centre Norwich and the University of [...]

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Small UK independent fiction publisher Galley Beggar Press, based in the East Anglian city of Norwich, recently attracted a lot of attention when the august Times Literary Supplement ran a high-profile and hugely positive review of one of its latest books, “A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing,” by Eimear McBride. In the TLS, David Collard wrote: [...]

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