The Times reports: The Richard Hillary Memorial Fund funds an annual lecture at Trinity College, Oxford, where Hillary had studied. Three winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature have given the lecture and this year the children's author Philip Pullman will speak on "the smallest possible units of narrative".
"It's much the same as scientists researching fundamental particles, something irreducibly small such as the metaphor of a task being a journey," says Pullman, whose own father was a fighter pilot, killed in action in Kenya in 1953. "It's a subject I have become obsessive about."
The lecture - this year at the English Faculty's St Cross Building - is on Friday 9th February at 5pm.
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