CHRONOLOGY
CHRONOLOGY – Andrew Cowan
1970
Malcolm Bradbury and Angus Wilson launch the UEA Creative Writing MA
Ian McEwan becomes the UK’s inaugural Creative Writing student
WG Sebald joins UEA as a lecturer in German Literature
1971
Ian McEwan graduates from the Creative Writing MA
The UEA Creative Writing Fellowship is inaugurated
1975
Malcolm Bradbury publishes The History Man
Ian McEwan (1971) publishes First Love, Last Rites
1980
Angela Carter begins teaching on the Creative Writing MA
Angus Wilson is knighted for services to literature
Kazuo Ishiguro graduates from the Creative Writing MA
1981
Ian McEwan (1971) is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Comfort of
Strangers
1982
Kazuo Ishiguro (1980) publishes A Pale View of Hills
1983
Malcolm Bradbury is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Rates of Exchange
Kazuo Ishiguro (1980), Ian McEwan (1971), Clive Sinclair (BA 1969, PhD
1983) and Rose Tremain (BA 1967) included in Granta’s Best of Young
British Novelists 1
1986
Kazuo Ishiguro (1980) wins the Whitbread Best Novel Award and is
shortlisted for the Booker Prize for An Artist of the Floating World
1987
Ian McEwan (1971) wins the Whitbread Best Novel Award for The Child in Time
Anne Enright graduates from the Creative Writing MA
1988
Rose Tremain begins teaching on the Creative Writing MA
Deirdre Madden (1985) wins the Somerset Maugham Award for The Birds of
the Innocent Wood
Glenn Patterson wins a Betty Trask Award for Burning Your Own
1989
Kazuo Ishiguro (1980) wins the Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) wins the Sunday Express Book of the Year for Restoration
W.G. Sebald establishes the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) at UEA
1990
Fadia Faqir becomes UEA’s first PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and
publishes Nisanit
The annual UEA Creative Writing anthology is inaugurated with Unthank
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Restoration
1991
Malcolm Bradbury is awarded the CBE for services to literature
Angus Wilson dies, aged 78
1992
Ian McEwan (1971) is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Black Dogs
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for
Fiction for Sacred Country
Angela Carter dies, aged 51
1993
The Scriptwriting strand of the Creative Writing MA is launched
Andrew Cowan (1985) wins a Betty Trask Award for Pig
Kazuo Ishiguro (1980) included in Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2
1994
Andrew Cowan (1985) wins the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
Award and the Authors’ Club First Novel Award for Pig
1995
Malcolm Bradbury retires
Andrew Motion joins the faculty as a Professor of Creative Writing
WG Sebald begins teaching on the Creative Writing MA
The English Literature with Creative Writing BA is launched
1996
The Poetry strand of the Creative Writing MA is launched
David Flusfeder (1998) wins the Encore Award for Like Plastic
1997
Paul Magrs joins the Creative Writing faculty
Mick Jackson (1992) is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The Underground Man
Andrew Miller (1990)wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction
and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Ingenious Pain
Phil Whitaker (1996) wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Eclipse of the Sun
1998
Ian McEwan (1971) wins the Booker Prize for Amsterdam
The David T.K. Wong Fellowship is inaugurated
1999
Andrew Motion becomes the Poet Laureate
Denise Riley joins the Creative Writing faculty
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) wins the Whitbread Novel Award for Music and Silence
Kathryn Hughes (1986) wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for
Biography for George Eliot: The Last Victorian
Phil Whitaker (1996) wins the Encore Award for Triangulation
Tracy Chevalier (1994) publishes Girl With A Pearl Earring
2000
Malcolm Bradbury is knighted for services to literature
Malcolm Bradbury dies, aged 68
Trezza Azzopardi (1998) and Kazuo Ishiguro (1980) are shortlisted for the
Booker Prize for The Hiding Place and When We Were Orphans
Ben Rice (2000) wins the Somerset Maugham Award for Pobby and Dingan
2001
Richard Holmes joins the faculty as Professor of Biographical Studies and
becomes Director of the Lifewriting MA
WG Sebald dies, aged 57
Ian McEwan(1971) wins the WH Smith Literary Prize for Atonement
Ian McEwan (1971) and Andrew Miller (1990) are shortlisted for the Booker
Prize for Atonement and Oxygen
Trezza Azzopardi (1998) wins the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Hiding Place
2002
Patricia Duncker and Michele Roberts join the faculty as Professors
of Creative Writing
Helen Cross (1997) wins a Betty Trask Award for My Summer of Love
Esther Morgan (1998) wins the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize for
Beyond Calling Distance
The Charles Pick Fellowship is inaugurated
The David Higham bursary is inaugurated with Naomi Alderman as its first
recipient
2003
Susan Elderkin (1994), Toby Litt (1995) and Ben Rice (2000) included in
Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 3
2004
Andrew Cowan joins the Creative Writing faculty
Susan Fletcher (2002) wins the Whitbread First Novel Award for Eve Green
Anthony Cartright (1996) wins a Betty Trask Award forThe Afterglow
2005
Trezza Azzopardi joins the Creative Writing faculty
Tash Aw (2003) wins the Whitbread First Novel Award and the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for The Harmony Silk Factory
Diana Evans (2003) wins theOrange Broadband Prize for New Writers and a
Betty Trask Award for 26a
Ian McEwan(1971) wins the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for
Saturday
Ian McEwan (1971), Kazuo Ishiguro (1980) and Tash Aw (2003) are
shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Saturday, Never Let Me Goand The
Harmony Silk Factory
Donna Daley-Clarke wins the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book
Award for A Lazy Eye
Susan Fletcher (2002) wins a Betty Trask Award for Eve Green
2006
Amit Chaudhuri joins the faculty as a Professor of Literature and Creative
Writing
Naomi Alderman (2003) wins the Orange Broadband Prize for New Writers
for Disobedience
Diana Evans (2003) wins the Arts Council Decibel Writer of the Year Award
for 26a
Owen Sheers (1998) wins the Somerset Maugham Award for Skirrid Hill
John Boyne (1995) publishes the internationally bestselling The Boy In the
Striped Pyjamas
The Curtis Brown Prize is inaugurated with Joe Dunthorne as its first recipient
2007
Anne Enright (1987) wins the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering
George Szirtes joins the faculty as a Reader in Creative Writing
Rebecca Stott joins the faculty as a Professor of Creative and Critical Writing
Lavinia Greenlaw and Giles Foden join the faculty as Professors of Creative
Writing
Ian McEwan (1971) is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for On Chesil
Beach
Rose Tremain (BA 1967) wins the Orange Broadband Prize and is awarded
the CBE for services to literature
Naomi Alderman (2003) wins the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
Award for Disobedience
Mark McNay (2004) wins Arts Foundation Prize for New Fiction for Fresh
Adam Foulds (2000) wins a Betty Trask Award for The Truth About These
Strange Times
James Scudamore (2004) wins the Somerset Maugham Award for The
Amnesia Clinic
2008
Kathryn Hughes joins the faculty as a Professor of Lifewriting
Louis de Bernieres, Richard Holmes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, Graham
Swift, Rose Tremain are appointed as Distinguished Writing Fellows
Adam Foulds (2000) wins the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
for The Truth About These Strange Times and the Costa Poetry Award for
The Broken Word
Kathryn Simmonds (2002) wins the Forward Prize Best First Collection Award
for Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Clare Wigfall (2000) wins the BBC National Short Story Award
2009
Adam Foulds (2000) is shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for The
Quickening Mazeand wins the Somerset Maugham Award forThe Broken
Word
Mohammed Hanif (2005) wins Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book
Award for A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Meirion Jordan (2008) wins the Forward Prize Best First Collection Award for
Moonrise
2010
Adam Foulds (2000) wins the South Bank Show Literature Prize for The
Quickening Maze