Michel Faber constantly defies genre, and challenges our grasp of fictional modes. Winner of the 2015 Saltire Book of the Year award for A Book of Strange New Things, Faber is omnipresent in the public sphere, but his work is only just beginning to receive critical scholarly attention. With the notable exceptions of Under the Skin and The Crimson Petal and the White, his wide-ranging work is on the edges of current literary studies. This conference — the first devoted to Michel Faber — seeks to rectify this, by allowing both new and established scholars the opportunity to engage with Faber’s work.
Defying Genre: Michel Faber 