Davina Quinlivan
Memoir, Travel and Nature Writing
“Davina Quinlivan’s work maps, with grace and rigour, the rich, strange ground that lies between memoir, cultural history and nature writing,” wrote Robert Macfarlane. In the Devon-based author’s evocative and heartfelt first book Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration, Quinlivan deftly wove and braided family memories across time and space in a poetic act of attention and love. Her recent commissions have included writings for The Natural History Consortium, The Museum of English Rural Life and The Campaign to Protect Rural England. In her talk she will explore the role of place, memoir, myth and magical realism in travel writing, as well as reveal a glimpse of her follow up to Shalimar on the subject of “getting lost”.
