The next guest in the University’s In Conversation series will be the British Novelist, Louis de Bernieres on 8 March.

The event will take place at 18.45 in the Woolf Lecture Theatre on the University’s Canterbury campus. It is free to attend and open to all.

Hosted by the University’s Chancellor Gavin Esler, In Conversation events are a relaxed and informal discussion between the guest and the Chancellor, with audience participation encouraged. Each event concludes with a Question and Answer session but the conversation can be joined on Twitter beforehand using #GavinAsks.

Louis de Bernieres published his first novel in 1990. Since then he has become well known internationally as a writer, with Captain Corelli’s Mandolin winning the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Novel in 1994. His sixth novel, the acclaimed Birds Without Wings, came out in 2004; followed by A Partisan’s Daughter which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. He has also written Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, Imagining Alexandria: Poems in Memory of Constantinos Cavafis and his major novel, The Dust That Falls From Dreams. His new collection of poems, OF LOVE AND DESIRE, is out now.

After the talk, there will be a ticketed High Table Dinner with Louis de Bernieres and the Chancellor with tickets priced at £45.00 per person. Money raised from the sale of tickets for this part of the event will go towards the Kent Opportunity Fund. Find out more on the In Conversation webpages.

The final guest in this year’s In Conversation series will be Robert Wyatt.