Roma Tearne: The Road To Urbino starts at London's National Gallery

Monday, 11 June 2012

The Road To Urbino starts at London's National Gallery

Film screening, book launch and discussion with author Roma Tearne and Jon Snow.
Friday June 15th 2012 at 6PM
Sainsbury Wing Theatre
Tickets £6/£4 concessions

Roma Tearne's fifth novel published by Little Brown will be launched at this event.

For further details click here.

3 comments:

Conrad Weiskrantz11 June 2012 01:30
I'll be there !
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anna di stefano11 June 2012 09:48
We wouldn't miss it for the world!!
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Charlotte Fitz-Harris12 June 2012 07:32
Looking forward to it!
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Author Bio

Roma Tearne is a Sri Lankan born novelist and film maker living in the UK. She left Sri Lanka with her family, at the start of the civil unrest during the 1960s. She trained as a painter & filmmaker at the Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford and then was Leverhulme artist in residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Subsequently she was awarded an AHRC Fellowship and worked for three years in museums around Europe on a project accessing narrative within the collections.

She has written four novels. Her fifth, The Road To Urbino will be published by Little Brown in June 2012 to coincide with the premier of her film of that name at the National Gallery in London. She has been short-listed for the Costa, the Kirimaya & LA Times book prize and long-listed for the Orange Prize in 2011. She lives & works in Oxford.