This led him on to the prestigious Creative Writing MA at UEA and the commissioning of his first novel, Strides, about love and trousers, also published by Faber and Faber. He says ‘Norwich has a wide range of excellent menswear shops’

Living in Suffolk has a profound effect on the images in my work: images of the sea and coastline constantly recur, together with images of beach huts as a metaphor for refuge and ‘home’.

Director of Education and Culture, Harryda Municipality, Sweden. Suddenly, I stood between the Middles Ages and the Future, in Norwich having St Peter Mancroft behind me and the Forum in front of me, with air lit from the sea surrounding the Castle built by the Normans and I felt at home.

Film Arts Norwich (FAN) Festival is rapidly gaining a reputation as a world class animation festival involving 36 countries and is known to 1,500 animators in 150 countries.