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New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
Award-winning writer Caoilinn Hughes (The Wild Laughter) reads from her work, including an excerpt from her forthcoming novel, The Alternatives (Riverhead, April 2024). Open to the public; no tickets required.
The 2022 Writers in Residence initiative at an iconic Flintshire library have been announced as the series enters its 10th year.
Shortlists for Dalkey Literary Awards 2021 revealed €30,000 prize fund for Irish writers to be awarded at Dalkey Book Festival in June about 4 hours ago Previous Image The vitality and variety of contemporary Irish writing is reflected in two remarkably strong shortlists for this year’s Dalkey Literary Awards. The field for the €20,000 Novel of the Year award includes Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan, winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year...
SunStar Contributed photo January 25, 2021 THE international longlist for one of the world’s largest literary prizes for young writers -- the Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize -- is announced on January 21, 2021, featuring a record number of nine debut writers. The list comprises nine novels, two poetry collections and one short story collection, and at a time when travel has been restricted and contact with loved ones limited, these extraordinary titles -- eight of which are by female writers -- transport the reader from Seoul to Hong Kong, Syria to Kilburn, Montana to Dub...