Tag Archives: Dr Mark Nixon

Samuel Beckett Summer School, 2016

Will Davies, a PhD student in the Department of English Literature, writes: Over the summer, I spent a week at Trinity College, Dublin, home of the Samuel Beckett Summer School and Beckett’s alma mater. Supported by the generous bursary of … Continue reading

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Beckett Week at the University of Reading (2-5 November 2016)

  The Beckett at Reading team is happy to announce the following events, which will take place during our ‘Beckett Week’:   Lisa Dwan: ‘A Beckett Actor’ – The Billie Whitelaw Lecture (6pm, 2 November 2016) Acclaimed Beckett actress, Lisa … Continue reading

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Beckett conference

The registration for the Beckett at Reading Postgraduate Group conference ‘Beckett and Europe’ is open. UoR staff and students are all very welcome and receive a reduced rate. The conference will take place on the 28th and 29th of October … Continue reading

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Mark Nixon at Cheltenham Literature Festival

Mark Nixon, editor of Beckett’s story Echo’s Bones (Faber, 2014), joined actor Lisa Dwan, star of the acclaimed one-woman trilogy of Beckett plays at the Royal Court, and Dan Gunn (co-editor, The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1957 – 1965) at this … Continue reading

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Nixon on Beckett on the BBC

Tonight, at 22:45 on Radio 3, Beckett expert Dr Mark Nixon will be talking on editing a Beckett story 80 years after it was written. Find out more by following this link.

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Reading academic revives 80 year-old Beckett work

Dr Mark Nixon has been the inspiration behind the first new Samuel Beckett text to be published in almost 20 years. Dr Mark Nixon, one of the world’s leading Beckett scholars, has brought to life ‘Echo’s Bones’ 80 years after … Continue reading

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‘Was I sleeping while the others suffered?’

In late August Associate Professors Conor Carville and Mark Nixon staged a major exhibition of manuscripts and other materials for the Happy Days International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. The Festival is a five-day celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning … Continue reading

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Literary Mondays

  Details: Monday 29 October, 5-6:30pm in HumSS 125, Whiteknights Campus Dr Peter Fifield, E.M. Forster and BBC Radio, chaired by Dr Mark Nixon Peter is the third invited speaker in our new series of Monday Lit talks, organised between … Continue reading

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