A PUPIL from a Malvern school has won third prize in a prestigious Cambridge University essay writing competition.
Lucinda Hobden, a Year 13 pupil at Malvern St James Girls’ School, entered the Peter Lawrence Essay Prize in Modern Languages.
The competition is run by Trinity Hall and is designed to encourage high-flying students to consider applying to the university.
The essay written by Lucinda, from Ledbury, compared the feminist force of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949) and Chantal Akerman’s film Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975).
She said: “When I first saw the title for the essay, I was a little flummoxed where to start with it.
"But as I considered it, I quickly became engrossed by the research.
"I didn't expect to win any prize; it's just a bonus to be rewarded for an essay I enjoyed writing anyway!”
It is the second time Lucinda has excelled in a Cambridge University essay writing competition.
In April 2016, she won Corpus Christi’s Christopher Marlowe prize in English.
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