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English and Theatre graduates’ companies Barrel Organ, Walrus and Breach made a huge splash at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2015 (after Barrel Organ also very acclaimed in 2014). Andrew Haydon writes in The Guardian, ‘?’ on the significance of ÌÇÐÄTV for the resurgence of British political theatre.

Congratulations to Daryl Qilin Yam, who is set to become a published author the same year he graduates. His highly anticipated fiction title, Kappa Quartet is published by Epigram Books and is due to be launched at the Singapore Writers festival in November this year, where he is set to be a featured author. You can read the news story , and also in the .

Congratulations to - her translation of Reckless by Hasan Ali Toptas () has been longlisted for the award 2016. "Often surreal, occasionally funny, full of awe for humanity and its potential, and never anything but ambitious, Reckless suggests that for Turkey, and for all of us, the truth about what we're capable of isn't very pleasant. The real battles, Toptas shows us, are in our hearts, where the outcome is all too often a crude form of justice." TLS

Congratulations to our PGs Sourit Bhattacharya, Brigit Breidenbach, Karen Borg Cardona, Lara Choksey, Qiao Qiao, Emil Rybczak, Martin Schauss, Madeleine Scherer, Andrew Stones and Milly Weaver who all passed their PGA qualification, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. It was an exceptionally strong group according to the examiners, who considered their work of an extraordinarily high standard.

Congratulations to our PGS, Visnja Krstic and Di Wu, who have been awarded full funding on Harvard's prestigious, and very competitive, Institute for World Literature.