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1. 1. www.scar.hull.ac.uk

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   Patricia DunckerProfessor of Modern Literature, University of Manchester
   
   Patricia Duncker was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1951.She attended school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, she read English at Newnham College, Cambridge.She studied for a DPhil in English and German Romanticism at St Hugh's College, Oxford.From 1993,2002, she taught Literature at the University of Aberystwyth, from 2002,2006 worked as Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, teaching the MA in Prose Fiction.In January 2007, she moved to the University of Manchester where she is Professor of Modern Literature.Her first novel, the acclaimed Hallucinating Foucault (1996), won the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize.

2. 2. www.arts.manchester.ac.uk

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   Published on: 9/10/2007   Last Visited: 9/10/2007

   Professor Patricia Duncker (photo: Peter Peitsch)Professor Patricia Duncker (photo: Peter Peitsch)
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   Professor Patricia Duncker
   
   My work as a novelist over the past twelve years has explored the connections between canonical texts, in both European and English traditions, and the contemporary literary imagination.
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   A Writer's Writer: Patricia Duncker on George Eliot' New Welsh Review ; No 74 Winter 2006, pp.93-95.

3. 3. wake magazine . org

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   Patricia Duncker: was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 29 June, 1951.She attended school in England and, after a period spent working in Germany, she read English at Newnham College, Cambridge.She studied for a D.Phil. in English and German Romanticism at St Hugh's College, Oxford.She is Reader in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she teaches Creative Writing, Contemporary Fiction and Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.Her latest publications are the novel The Deadly Space Between (2002) and a collection of disturbing and provocative stories, Seven Tales of Sex and Death (2003).
   
   Romesh Gunesekera: was born in Sri Lanka and now lives in London.He is the author of three novels, Heaven's Edge (a New York Times Notable Book 2003), The Sandglass (BBC Asia Award), Reef (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and a collection of stories, Monkfish Moon.More at romeshgunesekera.com.