Susannah Clapp, Caryl Phillips, BidishaAngela Carter, actually
Chaired by Anne Chisholm
Twenty years after her untimely death from cancer, novelist Angela Cartercontinues to challenge, delight and provoke her readers. Possessed of a sharp and often subversive intellect, she was a re-maker of fairy tales, an outspoken feminist and a richly distinctive stylist. In works such as The Magic Toyshop, Wise Children and The Bloody Chamber, she blends fairy tale and magic realism to explore human sensuality and conventional femininity with wit and intelligence. Her literary executor, the theatre critic Susannah Clapp, who recently published the affectionate memoir A Card from Angela Carter, joins novelist Caryl Phillips and writer and broadcaster Bidisha to celebrate Carter’s work and consider her legacy.
Venue: The Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House
The Royal Society of Literature
Somerset House, Strand
London WC2R 1LA
020 7845 4676
www.rslit.org