Stella Duffy will read from her novels, talk about her work as a writer in many genres and also as a theatre director. There is every chance she will also mention that not only posh people can be writers, that Equal Marriage is a very exciting thing, and how the Fun Palaces Project is taking over her life.
Stella Duffy has written thirteen novels, fifty short stories, and ten plays. ‘The Room of Lost Things’ and ‘State of Happiness’ were both longlisted for the Orange Prize, and she has twice won Stonewall Writer of the Year. She won the 2002 CWA Short Story Dagger for ‘Martha Grace’ and again in 2013 for ‘Come Away With Me’. She has adapted her novel ‘State of Happiness’ for feature film with Zentropa/Fiesta. HBO have optioned her novels of the Empress Theodora, ‘Theodora, Actress, Empress, Whore’ and ‘The Purple Shroud’ for a TV mini-series. In addition to her writing work, Stella is also a theatre director and performer, currently heading the ‘Fun Palaces 2014′ project. She blogs at www.stelladuffy.wordpress.com
