Professor David Peimer
Hemingway: A Man, A Writer, of His Time and Our Time
Summary
Henry James said that World War I had “used up words”. Hemingway was defined by war, love, loss, masculinity, travel, nature, passion, obsession, and to use as few words as possible. He knew that “every man’s life ends in the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another”. In this talk we will look at his life, times, writing and the powerful influence he has on writers today.
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.