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Listowel Writers’ Week has appointed a curator for next year’s festival.Stephen Connolly, who has previously worked on literary festivals in Belfast and Galway,...
LISTOWEL Writers’ Week is currently undergoing a reappraisal that at one point looked as if it might see the hugely popular festival in north Kerry cancelled. However, that eventuality seems to have been headed off, but deep divisions remain between those who organise the festival and those who have traditionally helped to run it. Ongoing
The chair of Listowel Writers’ Week says a controversial report highlighted a negative culture within the organisation which threatened not just its funding, b...
Thirty three years after Ayatollah Khomeni imposed a fatwa on the author, it would seem to have led, on August 12, to a young man called Hadi Matar making an attempt on Rushdie’s life at a public event in New York. By Michael McGirr
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