Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh
University Of Aberdeen
King's College
Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
Acclaimed Scottish writers Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh discuss their latest novels, common themes, differing genres, and creative collaborations. Set in Glasgow and Kilmarnock and spanning the 1930s-60s, Zoë Strachan’s Catch the Moments as They Fly is her most personal novel to date. Louise Welsh’s latest gritty novel, To The Dogs , explores organised crime, institutional corruption and moral compromise in Glasgow with much dark humour.
Zoë Strachan is an award-winning novelist whose short stories and essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies internationally and been broadcast on BBC Radio. She also writes stage drama (sometimes with her partner, the novelist Louise Welsh) and opera, and has a long-standing sound art/experimental radio collaboration with composer Nichola Scrutton. Her day job is as Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow and she has edited six anthologies of new writing. She lives in Glasgow and agrees with Muriel Spark that all writers should acquire a cat.
Louise Welsh is an award-winning author of ten novels. The Cutting Room , her debut novel, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award and the Saltire First Book of The Year Award. In 2018, she was named the Most Inspiring Saltire First Book Award winner by public vote. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. In 2022 she published The Second Cut , which was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize for Crime Book of the Year and named by T he Times as their Crime Book of the Year.
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Sep. 29, 2024 5:00pm
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