Online Meet-Up with Ania Bas, Author of "ODD HOURS" (Welbeck UK)
Sun 22 Sept
|Zoom
LGMW is excited to host an online meet-up with Ania Bas, author of a fiction book "Odd Hours". "Odd Hours" is a story of a Polish-British woman in search of love, identity - and a meaningful job. It was published in 2022 by Welbeck, part of Hachette UK, one of the UK's biggest publishing groups.
Time & Location
22 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 21:00 BST
Zoom
Guests
About the event
This is our 40th multilingual writers' meet-up, and we are excited to have as our guest speaker Ania Bas - a Polish artist and writer living in England. Ania grew up in Poland and moved to the UK in 2004 to pursue a career in the arts. She has worked with Tate, Whitechapel Gallery and others as an artist and arts organiser. She began writing 'Odd Hours' on the Faber Academy 'Writing a Novel' course. It is inspired by her early experiences in the UK: as a tenant in an eight-person house share (with one bathroom), years in low-paid jobs, and multiple encounters of xenophobia.
Praise for 'Odd Hours':
'This wove a spell on me!' Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author
'This enigmatic and idiosyncratic gem is eccentric, quirky and utterly original' Kevin O'Sullivan (Irish Examiner Book of 2022)
'Odd Hours is a brilliant satire on the struggles of life in…