The Department of Foreign Languages in our Institut Manuel de Pedrolo organized a lecture in English by the British writer Matthew Tree for students of Batxillerat on February 6. The English writer settled down in Catalonia, opened the conference with a quotation from the novel 'Saturday' by Ian McEwan to illustrate his own experience in the search for a voice in his writing.
In this process, Matthew Tree explained that he found his own voice in Catalan after overcoming the obstacles of the social class framework in English language. After that, he read an extract from his first novel in Catalan. Finally, he finished reading the first chapter of his next novel 'SNUG' which is about to be published in the UK. Then he suggested a question-and-answer session where students put him some questions in English as well. We all enjoyed an anglophone day.
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