Author Patience Agbabi will be discussing her Refugee Tales project as part of the Congress of New Chaucer Society at the University of Durham. She will also be reading from her work Telling Tales.

Bio

Patience Agbabi FRSL is a celebrated poet who is well-known for her fourth collection, Telling Tales (Canongate, 2014), an exuberant retelling of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. She has participated in residencies from Eton College to Flamin’ Eight, a tattoo studio; from The Historic Dockyard at Chatham to stately home Harewood House. In the last two years she has turned her talents to writing for children aged 8 to ∞. The Leap Cycle is a thrilling time-travel adventure quartet and the debut novel, The Infinite (Canongate, 2020), was a CBBC Book of the Month (July 2020) and shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year (winner of the Children & Young People Award), the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Scottish Teenage Book Prize and longlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Philip Pullman said of it: ‘Vivid, funny, exciting and inventive…Patience Agbabi has created something fresh and original here, and I look forward very much to what she writes next.’ The sequel, The Time-Thief, was published by Canongate in 2021.