WW 2013 PRINT FILE - Listowel Writers
WW 2013 PRINT FILE - Listowel Writers
WW 2013 PRINT FILE - Listowel Writers
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THURSDAY 30 MAY<br />
Fiction:<br />
LUCY CALDWELL<br />
St. John’s Theatre &<br />
Arts Centre<br />
3.30pm - 4.30pm<br />
€10 / €8<br />
Award winning writer, Lucy<br />
Caldwell has written two<br />
novels, Where They Were<br />
Missed and The Meeting<br />
Point, which won the Dylan<br />
Thomas Prize. Lucy Caldwell<br />
has previously won the<br />
Rooney Prize for Irish<br />
Literature and was recently<br />
shortlisted for the BBC<br />
International Short Story<br />
Award. She is also an<br />
award-winning playwright.<br />
Her third novel All The<br />
Beggars Riding has just<br />
been published. Lucy is also<br />
an award-winning<br />
playwright whose stage<br />
plays and radio dramas<br />
have won numerous<br />
awards.<br />
BECOME A PATRON<br />
OF THE FESTIVAL<br />
Call us on +353(0)68 21074<br />
to find out more.<br />
Book launches:<br />
HONOR DONOHOE<br />
MAEVE DEVOY<br />
The Plaza Centre<br />
4pm - 5pm<br />
Free of charge<br />
Babylorn<br />
Honor Donohoe was born in a<br />
Good Shepherd Mother and<br />
Baby home. From here she<br />
was adopted by a loving<br />
couple living in Scotland, was<br />
raised in the suburbs of<br />
Edinburgh and educated at a<br />
Sacred Heart Convent school.<br />
She trained as a teacher and<br />
now works part-time in a<br />
secondary school with special<br />
needs pupils. The author lives<br />
in Scotland with her husband<br />
and sons. In her book Babylorn,<br />
Kirsty discovered that her life<br />
began in a Magdalene<br />
Laundry in Ireland. Leaving an<br />
abusive marriage behind she<br />
heads to Co. Kerry in search of<br />
her roots. Her discoveries,<br />
although disturbing, soothe her<br />
troubled heart with promise of<br />
new beginnings.<br />
The Tell Tale Collection<br />
Maeve Devoy has spent the<br />
past three years interviewing<br />
people of different ages and<br />
backgrounds. The result is a<br />
rich tapestry of Irish life woven<br />
from the fabric of the decades<br />
as seen through the eyes of<br />
subjects born in the 1920s right<br />
up to the turn of the century.<br />
Devoy is an honours journalism<br />
graduate of DCU and The Tell<br />
Tale Collection tells 15 stories<br />
based on interviews with<br />
people who lived in different<br />
decades and how they dealt<br />
with the challenges they<br />
faced in their time.<br />
Book online at writersweek.ie or call +353 (0)68 21074<br />
Fiction:<br />
COLUM MCCANN<br />
The Arms Hotel<br />
5pm - 6pm<br />
€12 / €10<br />
Make a note in your diary<br />
for the much anticipated<br />
return of one of Ireland’s<br />
most successful literary<br />
ex-pats. Dubliner Colum<br />
McCann is based in the US<br />
where his fiction has<br />
garnered much critical<br />
acclaim. He is the author of<br />
five novels and two story<br />
collections. Zoli, Dancer<br />
and This Side of Brightness<br />
were international<br />
bestsellers but McCann’s<br />
star rose even higher with<br />
Let the Great World Spin in<br />
2009. This remarkable work<br />
won the prestigious<br />
National Book Award in the<br />
US, the 2010 Best Foreign<br />
Novel Award in China, the<br />
International IMPAC Award<br />
2011and several other<br />
major prizes. McCann lives<br />
in New York with his wife<br />
Allison and their three<br />
children. His next novel<br />
Transatlantic will be<br />
published later this year<br />
and it utilises the real-life<br />
narratives of Frederick<br />
Douglass, Alcock and<br />
Brown, and Senator<br />
George Mitchell in a daring<br />
novelistic feat.<br />
Another essential event.
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