Joanna Kavenna talks at Crunch Art Festival 2011. Full details

The Birth of Love

Driven, risked and achieved, The Birth of Love is shaped with rare accomplishment and integrity. Shifts of register alarm and excite. But Joanna Kavenna’s cool and measured control wins our trust, carrying us, in the heat of the matter through circuits of pain and disquiet, to beautiful resolution. Iain Sinclair

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Inglorious

Brilliant, paradoxical energy and much last-ditch laughter. Inglorious is a high-risk, one-off...I loved it. Kate Kellaway, The Observer

...simply stunning. Honest, brilliant, arresting, and barefisted—for the blows come hard. But it is also a work of art: tart, wise, human, funny, and best of all, without the least trace of sentiment. André Aciman

Winner of the 2008 Orange Award for New Writing.

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The Ice Museum

Illuminating and consequential...Her depictions are a wonderful mixture of the exact and the fanciful-much the way icebergs will assume shapes that blend the solid and the fantastic. The New York Review of Books

Exceptionally readable... reminiscent of Lawrence Millman’s Last Places and Colin Thubron’s In Siberia... compelling... beautiful... The Times

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