Tessa Hadley | Cambridge Union

WOMEN IN LITERATURE
How are writers influenced by the cultural manifestations of gender? Do
women’s writing and women’s experiences imply some unities of culture?
Are there some stories that only women can tell? This panel aims to
explore the role of literature in representing the female experience, and
to question the patriarchal nature of the western literary canon. We hope
for this to be a welcoming space to spark reflection upon the nature of
women’s writing.
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Tessa Hadley:
Tessa Hadley has published seven novels - including The London Train,
The Past, and Late in the Day - and three collections of short stories. A new
novel, Free Love, comes out this month, January 2022. She publishes short
stories regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the
London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for
Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and the Edge Hill Prize in 2018.
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Tahmima Anam (unfortunately could not come due to Covid-19):
Tahmima Anam is the author of four novels, including A Golden Age, The
Good Muslim, and The Startup Wife. She is the recipient of an O. Henry
Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, and has been named one
of Granta’s best young British novelists. She was a contributing opinion
writer for the New York Times and was recently elected as a fellow of the
Royal Society of Literature. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she attended Mount. Holyoke College and Harvard University and now lives in London.
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