Two masterful storytellers across arts & sciences - Neil Gaiman & Carlo Rovelli | 5x15

How does literature nourish science? When does physics become poetry? An event of cosmic proportions from 5x15, as two masterful storytellers - Neil Gaiman and Carlo Rovelli - discuss life, the universe and everything.

Neil Gaiman is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Neverwhere, American Gods, The Ocean at the End of the Lane and the Sandman series of graphic novels. Neil Gaiman is credited with being one of the creators of modern comics, as well as an author whose work crosses genres and reaches audiences of all ages. He is a prolific creator of works of prose, poetry, film, journalism, comics, song lyrics, and drama.

Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions to the physics of space and time. His books Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, and The Order of Time are international bestsellers which have been translated into 43 languages, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics has sold more than 2m copies worldwide. Rovelli has worked in Italy and the US and is currently working in Canada and also directing the quantum gravity research group of the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France.

'Modern physics has found its poet…’ John Banville, Irish Times

The event will be chaired by Erica Wagner. Erica was born in New York City and is a widely-acclaimed author and critic. She is the author of Gravity: Stories, Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters and Seizure, a novel; she is the editor of First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for 17 years and is now contributing literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar, a contributing writer for the New Statesman, as well as writing for the Financial Times, the Economist and the New York Times. She was the recipient of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award in 2014, and Chief Engineer, her biography of Washington Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, was published by Bloomsbury in 2017.

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