Lucy Popescu
Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and was Director of its Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. The Good Tourist, her book about human rights and ethical travel, was published by Arcadia Books in late 2008. She co-edited the PEN anthology Another Sky (Profile Books, 2007) featuring the work of writers that PEN has helped over the last 40 years. She was Granada's youngest published author in 1982 with Pony Holiday Book. Lucy reviews books, theatre and film and contributes to various publications in the UK and abroad including The Independent, Independent on Sunday, TLS, Literary Review and Huffington Post. She has a particular interest in literary fiction in translation and free expression. She sat on the Spanish New Books Panel in 2013. Lucy currently curates and hosts literary events at the Working Men's College in Camden and teaches creative writing. She is also a volunteer writing mentor for Write to Life, the creative writing group at Freedom from Torture, and edited its most recent anthology, Body Maps, published in June 2011 and refugee writer Jade Jackson's collection Moving a County in 2013. Please support her latest venture, A Country of Refuge, (http://unbound.co.uk/books/a-country-of-refuge) Lucy is a Trustee of the JMK Award for Theatre Directors and a co-director of the Sri Lanka Campaign. She is a member of the Authors' Club and on the judging panel for The Best First Novel Award.
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Lucy Popescu is a writer, editor and arts critic with a background in human rights. She worked with the English Centre of PEN, the international association of writers, for over 20 years and was Director of its Writers in Prison Committee from 1991 to 2006. The Good Tourist, her book about human rights and ethical travel, was published by Arcadia Books in late 2008. She co-edited the PEN anthology Another Sky (Profile Books, 2007) featuring the work of writers that PEN has helped over the last 40 years. She was Granada's youngest published author in 1982 with Pony Holiday Book. Lucy reviews books, theatre and film and contributes to various publications in the UK and abroad including The Independent, Independent on Sunday, TLS, Literary Review and Huffington Post. She has a particular interest in literary fiction in translation and free expression. She sat on the Spanish New Books Panel in 2013. Lucy currently curates and hosts literary events at the Working Men's College in Camden and teaches creative writing. She is also a volunteer writing mentor for Write to Life, the creative writing group at Freedom from Torture, and edited its most recent anthology, Body Maps, published in June 2011 and refugee writer Jade Jackson's collection Moving a County in 2013. Please support her latest venture, A Country of Refuge, (http://unbound.co.uk/books/a-country-of-refuge) Lucy is a Trustee of the JMK Award for Theatre Directors and a co-director of the Sri Lanka Campaign. She is a member of the Authors' Club and on the judging panel for The Best First Novel Award.
