15-548: The University of East Anglia's Creative Writing Course was founded by Sir Malcolm Bradbury and Sir Angus Wilson in 1970. The M.A. has been regarded among the most prestigious in the United Kingdom. The course allows specialisation in the following strands: Prose , Creative Non-Fiction , Poetry , Scriptwriting (which is Skillset accredited) and Crime Fiction . In 2024, a new strand, MA Creative Writing, which allows students to work across different literary forms,
30-453: A picaresque tone. Cuts (novel) Cuts was written by author Malcolm Bradbury , commissioned by Hutchinson as part of their Hutchinson Novella series, published in 1987. It used a host of plays on the word "cuts" to mock the values of Thatcherite Britain in 1986 and the world of television drama production in which Bradbury had become involved after the adaptation of The History Man (by Christopher Hampton ). Bradbury derided
45-409: A number of surveys and handbooks of modern fiction, both British and American. However, he is best known to a wider public as a novelist. Although often compared with his contemporary David Lodge , a friend who has also written campus novels , Bradbury's books are consistently darker in mood and less playful both in style and language. In 1986, he wrote a short humorous book titled Why Come to Slaka? ,
60-665: A parody of travel books, dealing with Slaka , the fictional Eastern European country that is the setting for his novel Rates of Exchange , a 1983 novel that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize . Bradbury also wrote extensively for television, including scripting series such as Anything More Would Be Greedy , The Gravy Train (and its sequel, The Gravy Train Goes East , which explored life in Bradbury's fictional Slaka), and adapting novels such as Tom Sharpe 's Blott on
75-777: The MA in Creative Writing course, attended by both Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro . He published Possibilities: Essays on the State of the Novel in 1973, The History Man in 1975, Who Do You Think You Are? in 1976, Rates of Exchange in 1983 and Cuts: A Very Short Novel in 1987. He retired from academic life in 1995. Bradbury became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991 for services to literature and
90-612: The University of Hull . With his study on Evelyn Waugh in 1962 he began his career of writing and editing critical books. From 1961 to 1965 he taught at the University of Birmingham . He completed his PhD in American studies at the University of Manchester in 1962, moving to the University of East Anglia (his second novel, Stepping Westward , appeared in 1965), where he became Professor of American Studies in 1970 and launched
105-490: The University of Manchester and Indiana University in the United States. He returned to England in 1958 for a major heart operation; such was his heart condition that he was not expected to live beyond middle age. In 1959, while in hospital, he completed his first novel, Eating People is Wrong . Bradbury married Elizabeth Salt and they had two sons. He took up his first teaching post as an adult-education tutor at
120-525: The Landscape and Porterhouse Blue , Alison Lurie 's Imaginary Friends , Kingsley Amis 's The Green Man , and the penultimate Inspector Morse episode The Wench is Dead . His last television script was for Dalziel and Pascoe series 5, produced by Andy Rowley . The episode " Foreign Bodies " was screened on BBC One on 15 July 2000. His work was often humorous and ironic, mocking academe , British culture , and communism , usually with
135-425: The course. Writers-in-residence have included Alan Burns and Margaret Atwood. Ali Smith has been a Writing Fellow and Visiting Professor on the programme. From 2021 to 2022, Tsitsi Dangarembga was the inaugural International Chair of Creative Writing. Sir Malcolm Bradbury Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury , CBE (7 September 1932 – 27 November 2000) was an English author and academic. Bradbury
150-651: The philistinism of television executives who wanted to capture the market of Brideshead Revisited and The Jewel in the Crown at impossibly low cost. He also explored the low esteem accorded writers in the hierarchy of television production. Two years ago he was working on the dramatization of one of his novels, about an imaginary socialist state, for the BBC; 80 actors were taught an imaginary language, locations were scouted in Turkey, rehearsals started. Two days before shooting,
165-437: The series was abandoned. Suddenly the BBC didn't have any money, Mr. Bradbury said. In the summer of 1986 government funds are being cut, and services are reducing, including education, health, the arts. Obscure university teacher and post-modernist novelist Henry Babbacombe was losing his staff while northern, hapless 'Eldorado Television' approaches him to produce a blockbuster of a series to be called Serious Damage . Henry
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#1732786945537180-600: Was born in Sheffield , the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother. The family later moved to Nottingham and in 1943 Bradbury attended West Bridgford Grammar School, where he remained until 1950. He read English at University College, Leicester , gaining a first-class degree in 1953. He continued his studies at Queen Mary College, University of London , where he gained his MA in 1955. Between 1955 and 1958, Bradbury moved between teaching posts with
195-603: Was launched. Each strand results in an M.A. qualification upon successful completion of the course. Course Directors have included Andrew Cowan , Tessa McWatt , Tiffany Atkinson , Steve Waters, Kathryn Hughes , Lavinia Greenlaw, and Henry Sutton . Writers teaching on the course in recent years have included Amit Chaudhuri , Trezza Azzopardi , Giles Foden , Tobias Jones , James Lasdun , Jean McNeil and George Szirtes . Writers such as Margaret Atwood , Angela Carter , Rose Tremain , Andrew Motion , W. G. Sebald , Michèle Roberts and Patricia Duncker have also taught on
210-524: Was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2000 , again for services to literature. Bradbury died at Priscilla Bacon Lodge, Colman Hospital, Norwich, on 27 November 2000, attended by his wife and their two sons, Matthew and Dominic. He was buried on 4 December 2000 in the churchyard of St Mary's parish church, Tasburgh , near Norwich where the Bradburys owned a second home. Though he
225-538: Was not an orthodox religious believer, he respected the traditions and socio-cultural role of the Church of England and enjoyed visiting churches in the spirit of Philip Larkin 's poem, "Church Going". Bradbury was a productive academic writer as well as a successful teacher; an expert on the modern novel , he published books on Evelyn Waugh , Saul Bellow and E. M. Forster , as well as editions of such modern classics as F. Scott Fitzgerald 's The Great Gatsby , and
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