Novelist Toby Litt will give a public talk on his experience as a writer at Glasgow University on 17 April 2007.

Author of Beatniks, Corpsing and deadkidsongs, Litt will also read from his latest work Hospital, described by the Guardian as an "extraordinarily vivid comic nightmare, an apocalyptic vision for our own weird times."

As part of a series of talks at Glasgow University by eminent literary figures, Toby Litt, who was nominated in 2003 by the literary magazine Granta as one of the top 20 young British novelists, will also be available to answer questions from the audience.

The talk will take place at 5.30pm on 17 April at the Wolfson Medical Building, University of Glasgow. The event is free and open to the public.

Kate Richardson (K.Richardson@admin.gla.ac.uk)

Journalists and photographers are invited to the event. If you plan to attend please contact Kate Richardson at the University of Glasgow Media Relations Office on 0141 330 3683 or email K.Richardson@admin.gla.ac.uk

First published: 16 April 2007