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Mexican author Valeria Luiselli has won the 2021 Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive. The novel, the first the author has written in English, follows an artist couple on a road trip from New York to Arizona with their two children in the heat of summer. As their parentsâ relationship frays, the children try to make sense of both their familyâs crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of children trying to cross the border into the US but getting detained or lost in the desert along the way. The winner was announced today online by Dublinâ...
Why are there no romance novels set in Belfast? Claire McGowan on the potential for genres other than crime to take off in Northern Ireland Tue, May 11, 2021, 05:54 Claire McGowan Claire McGowan: “I’m part of the problem, I’ll admit, as it wouldn’t have occurred to me to set a women’s fiction novel in Belfast, had my editor not suggested it.” Photograph: Jamie Drew Writing in 2003, in an essay entitled Why Crime Fiction is Good For You, Ian Rankin commented t...
‘I’m proud to be from Northern Ireland’: reflections on a contested centenary Ben Quinn, Rory Carroll and Lisa O'Carroll The centenary of the founding of Northern Ireland is to be marked on Monday – albeit overshadowed by political turmoil and the Covid-19 pandemic. Eight figures from Northern Ireland reflect on a contested centenary and the nuances of identity. ‘I would identify as Irish’ Jenn Murray, 35, is an actor from Belfast who has appeared in Brooklyn, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. I’ve been reluctant to talk ...
Arts Q&A: The Arts Council's Joanne Wright on Ryan Vail, Joshua Burnside and Whiplash memories Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, musician and music development officer Joanne Wright Joanne Wright, music development officer at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland 28 April, 2021 01:00 Joanne is the founder of Safe in Sound (Safeinsound.org) 1. When did you think about a career in the arts and what were your first steps into it? When I was at school I played in bands and I arranged my work experience a...