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Patrick Wright FBA is a British writer, broadcaster and academic in the fields of cultural studies and cultural history. He was educated at the University of Kent and Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada.
Oct 5, 2020 · Patrick Wright, Emeritus Professor at King's College London and chair of this year's panel of judges, talks us through the books shortlisted for the £25,000 prize. Interview by Sophie Roell, Editor.
Oct 29, 2010 · Patrick Wright, author of Passport to Peking, describes a visit to the 'New China' made by a group of British notables in 1954. Fri 29 Oct 2010 19.07 EDT.
Patrick has written about the changing concept of heritage, the idea of China as it has featured in the British imagination, the literary origins and symbolic powers of the tank, and the development of the “Iron Curtain” as a divisive political metaphor that actually started out in the theatre.
Patrick or Pat Wright may refer to: Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond (1931–2020), British diplomat. Patrick Wright (historian), British academic, writer and broadcaster.
Oct 28, 2009 · With these words Winston Churchill famously warned the world in a now legendary speech given in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Launched as an evocative metaphor, the 'Iron...
Patrick Wright, who himself abandoned north Kent for Canada a few months before Johnson arrived, returns to the “island that is all the world” to uncover the story of the East German author’s English decade, and to understand why his closely observed Kentish writings continue to speak with such clairvoyance in the age of Brexit.
