octavia bright
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Writer/Talker. THIS RAGGED GRACE (June 2023, Canongate). Co-host of @LitFriction. Occasional host of Open Book. She/her. Agent: @thestormboy
London
Joined October 2011
See you next week, Oslo! (I've ordered some thermals specially) 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴.
BBC World Book Cafe in Olso. @octaviabright_ gets to know the Norwegian books world through it's writers Maja Lunde, Zeshan Shakar, Gunnhild Øyehaug and Oliver Lovrenski. To come along register here.@Norwegianbooks #NorwegianLit #norwegianliterature.
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RT @EmmaHarding01: The end of an era. Raising a glass to the passion & expert brilliance of the team behind Open Book @BBCRadio4 @chris_pow….
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If you missed Han Kang at @southbankcentre you can listen back to our conversation at the link below - it was a fantastic event, and Greek Lessons is a book that has really stayed with me.
Here is the full audio from Han Kang’s most recent visit to @southbankcentre to celebrate the publication of Greek Lessons. A spellbinding conversation with @octaviabright_ #NobelPrize2024 @annavridley @HamishH1931 @LLaluyaux.
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This event with Han Kang really was a career highlight, I can't think of a more deserving winner ✨✨.
Thrilled to hear that Han Kang has won #NobelPrize2024 for Literature. A truly inspired choice. Her last visit to @southbankcentre was for this captivating conversation with @octaviabright_ for Greek Lessons in April 2023. Huge congratulations @videshi_beti @HamishH1931 and all!
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RT @TeditorTed: Thrilled to hear that Han Kang has won #NobelPrize2024 for Literature. A truly inspired choice. Her last visit to @southban….
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RT @edbookfest: ⭐️ Merve Emre: Turned Tables. Hear the incredible @mervatim in conversation with @octaviabright_ about her role as a litera….
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RT @LRBbookshop: Join us on publication eve to celebrate Sarah Moss's brilliant new memoir MY GOOD BRIGHT WOLF. She'll be in conversation w….
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I'm really looking forward to this - if you're Oxford based or thereabouts, hope you'll join us, I have a feeling it will be a bit glam and v smart and v v much worth your time <3.
JUICY EVENTS lined up too:. 🌋 Delightful @octaviabright_ is interviewing Rufi & Ruth Ivo about motherhood, performance, the Madonna/whore complex, and creative a narrative for oneself at the wonderful @DauntSummertown on 2 July. Tickets are selling fast!.
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RT @mariagluc: JUICY EVENTS lined up too:. 🌋 Delightful @octaviabright_ is interviewing Rufi & Ruth Ivo about motherhood, performance, the….
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RT @bookshop_org_UK: From landmark dystopian fiction, to a land marked by dystopian political realities. From deep memoir, to nature, music….
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RT @LRBbookshop: A full house at the shop this evening to hear Lauren Elkin discussing her outstanding first novel SCAFFOLDING with Octavia….
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If you’re in West London this weekend, there are a bunch of signed copies of the paperback in two gorgeous bookshops: @Dauntbooks Holland Park and Lutyens & Rubinstein 🌀🌀🌀
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I’m on the latest ep of Field Ramble - I loved speaking to Sam abt the symbolism in TRG. We talked Louise Bourgeois, spirals, housewomen, the ouroboros & lots more 🌀🐉 There’s a whole archive of brill conversations up there too, check it out.
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Thank you to everyone who has bought, sold, leant, read, reviewed & recommended TRG, & those who have written to me about it 🌀🌋💚.
The paperback is out today, with its gorgeous new cover. Available at your fave indie bookshop (also tastes good if you’re hungry) 🌀🌋💚
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The paperback is out today, with its gorgeous new cover. Available at your fave indie bookshop (also tastes good if you’re hungry) 🌀🌋💚
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Tonight we’re launching TRG in paperback (with its gorgeous new cover 🌋) at Southwark cathedral (!!), where I’ll be in conversation with the one & only @ImogenWK - I think there are still a couple tickets left if you’d like to join us 🌀🌀🌀.
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Great to talk to Maggie Nelson on Open Book abt Like Love, a collection of writing & conversations that will give you life ❤️ Plus, I spoke to @nicolawriting & @JessGreengrass abt a new climate fiction prize, & more… produced by brilliant @NicolaHolloway7.
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RT @NicolaHolloway7: On Open Book with @octaviabright_ : Maggie Nelson on Like Love; @JessGreengrass and @nicolawriting on climate fiction….
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