With details of the PEN HG Wells Lecture 2018 this December:
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Dave Eggers to deliver
PEN HG Wells Lecture 2018
The annual lecture in honour of the visionary author
and former president of English PEN returns for 2018, sponsored by
the Times Literary
Supplement
Sunday 16 December 2018, 5:30pm
The
Bridge Theatre, 3 Potters Fields Park, London SE1 2SG
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English PEN is delighted
to announce that the award-winning American writer, editor, publisher
and philanthropist Dave
Eggers will deliver this year’s PEN HG Wells Lecture,
in a rare visit to the UK.
The event will take place
on 16 December 2018 at the Bridge Theatre in London.
The HG Wells Lecture
showcases visionary writing and new thinking, and is held in honour of
the former PEN president, author and human rights campaigner. Wells
foresaw the creation of the worldwide web, most notably in a series of
talks and essays entitled World
Brain. Other revolutionary ideas set out in The Rights of Man (1940) influenced
the development of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which
celebrates its 75th year on 10 December 2018.
Dave Eggers is the author
of many books including What
is the What,
The Circle, A
Hologram for the King,
The Monk of Mokha and Zeitoun,
covering subjects from the boundaries of technological privacy and
freedom to modern migration, and the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. He
is the founder McSweeney’s,
ScholarMatch, the 826 National network of tutoring centres and the
International Congress of Youth Voices.
This year the lecture is
sponsored by The Times
Literary Supplement. Previous HG Wells Lectures have been
delivered by Audrey Niffenegger, AC Grayling and Ali Smith.
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The
PEN HG Wells Lecture 2018 is kindly sponsored by
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Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon
Road, LONDON, London EC1R 3GA
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