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What does it mean to write a good book? Do authors have any moral responsibility as they write, and what might that look like in practice? Join award-winning author Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent; Death of an Ordinary Man) for her talk contemplating the role of the writer. Sarah Perry is the internationally best selling author of novels including Enlightenment and The Essex Serpent, and the memoir Death of an Ordinary Man. She is a winner of the British Book Awards, the Waterstones Book of the Year Award, and the Nero Prize, and she has been nominated for major literary awards including the Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and for Non-Fiction. Her work has been translated into 27 languages, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the Chancellor of the University of Essex.

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