Event

LiFTS Seminar Series: Anthony Clavane, journalist, author, playwright and part-time Multimedia Journalism lecturer in LifTS

It's Coming Home: How Football Helped Reinvent Creative Non-Fiction

  • Tue 4 Dec 18

    17:00 - 18:30

  • Colchester Campus

    5N.7.23

  • Event speaker

    Anthony Clavane: journalist, author, playwright and part-time Multimedia Journalism lecturer in LiFTS

  • Event type

    Lectures, talks and seminars
    LiFTS Seminar Series

  • Event organiser

    Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, Department of

The Literature, Film and Theatre Studies Seminar meets weekly, during term time.

His first book Promised Land was named both Football Book Of The Year and Sports Book Of The Year. His second book Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here? was short-listed for Football Book of the Year. His most recent book, A Yorkshire Tragedy was chosen as one of the 2016 Guardian sports books of the year. He has written three plays, all performed in Leeds: Promised Land, Playing The Joker and Leeds Lads. He has been a journalist for almost 30 years, writing for a wide variety of national newspapers.