22.07.2005
Lynne Truss, best selling author (pictured below), will be awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters at the university’s awards ceremony on 26 July.
Lynne's book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, a passionate defence of proper punctuation, has become one of the most remarkable publishing successes of the decade.
Lynne's diverse and successful career has spanned journalism, writing and broadcasting. This has included spells with the Radio Times, the Times Higher Education Supplement, The Times, The Listener and the Sunday Times. She has also published three novels.
Lynne has lived in Brighton for the past twelve years and finds the city offers an attractive, congenial and free thinking cultural climate in which to live and work.
Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Stuart Laing, said: "Lynne has fully placed herself in a very honourable tradition in English writing – that of witty, sharply observed, accessible and fully contemporary social and cultural commentary. The university is very proud to recognise her talent."
Lynne said: "I think a degree from the University of Brighton ought to carry extra-special merit in the world outside, because it's got to be harder to concentrate in Brighton than anywhere in the world besides Rio de Janeiro."
She now promises her millions of readers a new book this autumn on the subject of rudeness.
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