Events

Connections: Fiction Readings by Ardashir Vakil and Darryl Whetter

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Date & Time

Wed 20 Feb 2019
7:30pm

Location

The Ngee Ann Kongsi Library
Block F, Level 4
LASALLE, 1 McNally Street

Admission

Free

Type

Reading

Ardashir Vakil (‘Ardu’) was born in Bombay and lived in India up to 1980. He taught English in London comprehensive schools for twenty years. Before starting at Goldsmiths, he had been Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Middlesex, Roehampton and UEA.

Ardu is a novelist, poet and short story writer who has published two award-winning novels – Beach Boy (Penguin, 1998) and One Day (Penguin, 2003). His stories have been anthologised, read on the radio and published in journals. His most recent short story, Laptop, was featured in the Fall issue (2017) of The Iowa Review. He is currently at work on a novel set in Bombay.

Since 2006 Ardu has been a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths, teaching BA, MA, Mphil and PhD students. He started a flagship MA with the Education Department called ‘Writer\Teacher’ which brings together his skills and experiences as a teacher and a writer. Several of his articles on pedagogy and practical advice for teachers and students of Creative Writing have been published by the International Journal of English Teaching, Changing English: Studies In Culture and Education.