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Anna Kavan was a British Twentieth Century writer of novels and short stories. Her distinctive style has been admired by other significant writers including Brian Aldiss, J.G.Ballard, Maggie Gee, Doris Lessing, Anais Nin and Jean Rhys.
Founded in 2009, the Anna Kavan Society aims to encourage wider readership and increase academic scholarship of Kavan’s work...
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More Kavan Reissues
Peter Owen have recently made a number of Kavan's rarer works available through Amazon's print-on-demand programme. Previously out of print, A Charmed Circle, Let Me Alone, Change the Name and My Soul in China are now available as affordable paperbacks at www.amazon.co.uk
Anna Kavan’s New Zealand
Jennifer Sturm's Anna Kavan's New Zealand: A Pacific interlude in a turbulent life was published in 2009 by Random House New Zealand and collects previously unpublished Kavan stories which were based on her time living in New Zealand. The volume also includes selections of letters from Kavan to her lover Ian Hamilton and Jennifer Sturm’s detailed commentary on Kavan’s New Zealand experiences.