Burning Snowflake
“I’m thrilled to be writing and delivering this year’s Faber Lecture. It’s an opportunity to explore subjects close to my heart – the nature of writing and the writing of nature. I’ve spent more than 25 years working at that intersection. Now, huge challenges to both the environment and literature mean fiction faces a reckoning. This lecture is about the power of prose to trespass, to disrupt and to rebel, offering narratives and visions that undermine and overcome adverse systems, perhaps even create solution stories.”
— Sarah Hall
Summary
The natural world is burning. Time is running out. You know the story.
So what possible role could something as flimsy as fiction play?
From the pioneering pen of a continually visionary writer, Burning Snowflake is a rallying cry.
Shrug off restrictions.
Imagine radically.
See fiction for what it is —
‘a safe haven stashed with creative explosives’.
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall is one of the UK’s most talented authors. Twice nominated for Man-Booker Prize, the first and only writer to win the BBC National Short Story Award twice, she has written 10 highly acclaimed novels and short story collections.
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