Principal's Conversation with Joanna Kavenna
Join Principal, John Bowers, in conversation with Frankland visitor 2024, Joanna Kavenna.

JOANNA KAVENNA grew up in Britain, and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Scandinavia, Italy and the Baltic states. She is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ice Museum, Inglorious, Come to the Edge, A Field Guide to Reality and – most recently – Zed. Her novel Inglorious won the Orange Award for New Writing, and her novel The Birth of Love was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Joanna Kavenna’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, The New York Times and many other publications. She was named as one of the Telegraph’s Best Writers under 40 in 2010 and as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. She has held the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony’s College Oxford and the Harper-Wood at St John’s College Cambridge.
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:30
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Speakers: Joanna Kavenna, Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Organising department: Brasenose College
Organiser: Anu Dawson (Principal's Office, Brasenose College)
Organiser contact email address: anu.dawson@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Host: Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://forms.office.com/e/2iScaUbtVp
Booking email: principals.events@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Anu Dawson