Heathrow gets new ‘writer in residence’
03.08.11
Tony Parsons is to be the new writer-in-residence role at Heathrow Airport. The novelist and journalist will move into a hotel at airport today and will stay for seven days. The author will roam the terminals talking to travellers and staff. He will then publish a collection of short stories called Departures: Seven Stories from Heathrow.
Mr Parsons said: ‘Airports are places of extreme emotion where people come and go and experiences begin and end. Often when we travel we find ourselves in such a hurry to get to our end destination that we fail to appreciate the individual stories and moments happening before us. Having grown up reading Arthur Hailey's novel Airport it feels like an incredible opportunity to live at Heathrow and write about the people whose lives are touched by it.’
The airport's first writer-in-residence was philosopher and author Alain de Botton who wrote part of his book, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary, from a desk in Terminal 5 in 2009.
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