S P E A K E R S

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Monica Ali

Monica Ali
photo: John Follain
Author of In the Kitchen (2009), Alentejo Blue (2006), Brick Lane (2003) which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and adapted for film (directed by Sarah Gavron, UK, 2007); writer of the introduction to the centenary edition of Greene's The End of the Affair (Vintage, 2004); lecturer at Columbia University, New York
Michael Brearley, OBE

Michael Brearley
Former England Cricket Captain, Former President of the Marylebone Cricket Club, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Author of The Art of Captaincy (1985) and Phoenix from the Ashes: Story of the England-Australia Series, 1981 (1982)
Tim Butcher

Tim Butcher
Formerly Middle East Correspondent, The Daily Telegraph; author of Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart (2007), and Chasing the Devil (to be published in 2010)
Prof. François Gallix

Prof. François Gallix
Professor of Contemporary Literature in English at the University of the Sorbonne, Paris; author of books and articles on twentieth century British authors, including Graham Greene; manager of conferences on The Power and the Glory at the Sorbonne; editor of Greene's early, unfinished and previously unpublished story The Empty Chair, following his research at the University of Texas at Austin; awarded a research grant in 2010 by the Harry Ransom Center at Austin, so that he may continue his work
Humphrey Hawksley

Humphrey Hawksley
BBC Foreign Correspondent, whose recent films for television include Bitter Sweet and Old Man Atom; author of Democracy Kills: What's So Good About Having the Vote? (2009), Security Breach (2008), The Third World War (2003), Red Spirit (2001), Dragon Fire (2000), Ceremony of Innocence (1999), Absolute Measures (1999) and other texts
Mike Hill

Mike Hill
Historian; director, Graham Greene Festival, 2005-2007; with Jon Wise co-author of a bibliographical and contextual reference book, The Writings of Graham Greene: A Reader's Guide
Peter Hollindale

Peter Hollindale
Reader in English and Education, University of York; author of critical studies on Shakespeare, J.M. Barrie and other writers for children
William Ivory

William Ivory
Writer for television, film and stage; author of Women in Love (BBC, 2010), A Thing Called Love (BBC, 2005), The Sins for which he won The Edgar Allan Poe Award in New York presented by The Crime Writers Association of America for Best TV Drama Series; creator of The Invisibles (BBC1, 2007); honorary D.Litt., University of Nottingham, 2009
Rowan Joffé

Rowan Joffé
The American: Screenplay for the film starring George Clooney, directed by Anton Corbjin. The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall: Director of the television drama written by Simon Block for Talkback Thames / Channel 4. BAFTA Award for Best Fiction Director 2009. 28 Weeks Later: Screenplay for the 28 Days Later sequel, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Last Resort: Screenwriter, directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. Secret Life: Writer and director of the television drama starring Matthew MacFadyen for Channel 4 / Kudos Productions. Turkish Delight: Afternoon play for BBC1. Winner of the Royal Television Society Best Drama Award 2003. Gas Attack: '90s television drama for Channel 4 / Hart Ryan. 2001. Nominated for BAFTA Best New Writer 2002. Nominated for Best Single Drama at the Broadcast Awards 2002; winner of Michael Powell Award for Best New British Feature at the Edinburgh Festival 2001.
Jeremy Lewis

Jeremy Lewis
Former director of Chatto & Windus; freelance editor and writer; commissioning editor of The Oldie and the editor-at-large of the Literary Review; he has published biographies of Cyril Connolly, Tobias Smollett and Allen Lane; author of Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from Literary Life (2008), Playing for Time (2008), and Kindred Spirits: Adrift in Literary London (2008); he is currently writing a book on the Greene family (Graham Greene's siblings and first cousins) to be published in 2010
Creina Mansfield

Creina Mansfield
Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Author of My Nutty Neighbours (2006), It Wasn't Me (2001), My Nasty Neighbours (1995), Cherokee (1994) and other titles for young children; researching for a Ph.D. on narratological theories and Greene's The Quiet American.
Dr. Frances McCormack

Dr. Frances McCormack
Lecturer in Department of English, National University of Ireland, Galway; author of Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent (2007); lexicographical consultant for Terence Patrick Dolan's Dictionary of Hiberno-English (2nd ed.); in addition to Chaucer, her research interests include Old and Middle English literature, political, religious and devotional literature of those eras, mystical writing, anticlericalism, penitential writings and heresy
Prof. Thomas O'Connor

Prof. Thomas O'Connor
School of Media Arts and Design, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. Award-winning independent television and film producer and writer since 1979; his film Fatima was the first nationwide documentary shown in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989; during a NASA fellowship in 1998 he wrote and produced a documentary on the first manned lunar landing; a Los Angeles production company has taken an option on his screenplay titled Fools of Time; currently he is working on a documentary about Graham Greene
David Pearce

David Pearce
Founding Trustee and former director, Graham Greene Festival; author of Festival papers on Stamboul Train and Dr. Fischer of Geneva
Dr. Joe Spence

Dr. Joe Spence
Dr Joe Spence has been the Master of Dulwich College since September 2009. He was previously Master in College at Eton College and headmaster of Oakham School. He is an historian and playwright. He writes on 19th – 20th century Irish literary and cultural history and has had two plays produced professionally: Gogol's Gamblers (Pleasance Edinburgh and BAC) and Descent (Pleasance Edinburgh and King's Head, Islington). His interest in the plays of Graham Greene has been long-standing and grew out of a fascination with the those playwrights of the 1950s and '60s (such as Greene, John Whiting, Enid Bagnold and Rodney Ackland) who were ignored in the era of the Angry Young Men.
David Strickland

David Strickland
University of East Anglia.