Creative writing workshops by University East Anglia in Kol

Author-musician Amit Chaudhuri and Professor Kirsty Gunn, Chair of Writing Practice and Study English, School of Humanities, University of Dundee will run a creative writing workshop session with 25 writers from across the world in Kolkata from 3 to 10 April. This is the 3rd in the series of University of East Anglia workshops. Kirsty is a novelist and writer of short stories. Her stories include "Rain", which led to the film of the same name, directed by Christine Jeffs. Her novel The Boy and the Sea won the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year award in 2007.  Her latest novel The Big Music was published in 2012 and won the Book of the Year in the 2013. The novel took seven years to write, and was inspired by Pibroch, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe.Kirsty will also run workshops in other East India cities.