The Faber Lecture 2025: Gary Younge (Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with Creative Manchester)
| Dates: | 16 October 2025 |
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| Times: | 18:30 - 20:00 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students, General public |
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Award-winning author, broadcaster and Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester, Gary Younge, delivers the inaugural Faber Lecture. In Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance, Gary explores what has been termed as the ‘burden of representation’ and the pressures exerted upon the relatively small group of people from underrepresented communities who break through into elite spaces and the expectations that may come from those with power and those without. These are issues that have framed, frustrated, inspired and inflected his entire working life as a writer.
In this incisive and moving personal lecture, Gary offers reflections on how to navigate representation, power and responsibility whilst keeping your job, your sanity and your freedom both as a human being and as a writer.
Gary Younge is an award-winning journalist and former Editor at Large for The Guardian. In 2025 he was awarded the Robert B. Silvers Award for Journalism and in 2023 he received the Orwell Prize for Journalism. He has written seven books including Another Day in the Death of America and Dispatches from the Diaspora; From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter.
Presented in partnership with Creative Manchester.
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