Dublin Writers Festival
What? Irish and international writers and poets explore themes including war, loss, national identity and modern Irish values.
In a special piece for the 2009 festival brochure, Colm Tóibín remarked that an intimate and nourishing relationship has developed over the last two decades in Ireland between writers and readers and that book festivals have played an important role in nurturing that relationship. Whereas ordinarily a book presents, for both writers and readers, a one-to-one relationship, within the context of a festival it becomes a communal experience. And it’s that sense of being part of a writing and reading community that makes live literature and book festivals such a joy.
Makes you all warm and mushy inside. Strong line-up again for 2011.
Where? Various locations, Dublin
When? Mon 23rd to Sun 29th May, 2011
Who? 2011
- John Banville
- Kevin Barry
- Eva Bourke
- John Boyne
- John Burnside
- Paddy Bushe
- John Butler
- Anna Carey
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Zoe Dattner
- Cormac de Barra
- Celia de Fréine
- Roddy Doyle
- Rita Duffy
- Paul Durcan
- Anne Enright
- Paul Harding
- Kim Harte
- Dermot Healy
- Seamus Heaney
- Richard Holloway
- Peter Jankowski
- August Kleinzahler
- Liz Lochhead
- Margaret Lonergan
- Michael Longley
- Fiach Mac Conghail
- Seán Mac Erlaine
- Gearóid Mac Lochlainn
- Kevin MacNeil
- Hisham Matar
- Eoin McNamee
- Rebecca Miller
- Czesław Miłosz
- Dairena Ní Chinnéide
- Julie O’Callaghan
- Dennis O’Driscoll
- Michael Palin
- Siobhán Parkinson
- Chris Riddell
- Jon Ronson
- Jo Shapcott
- Gerard Smyth
- Paul Stewart
- Jeremy Strong
- Paul Theroux
- Colin Thubron
- Louise Welsh
- Padraic Whyte
- Sophy Williams
- Adam Zagajewski
How much? 8.00 - 20.00 Euro. Check official site.
Past Festivals?
SEAMUS HEANEY, MELVYN BRAGG, STEVE TOLTZ, KATE SUMMERSCALE, VAL MCDERMID, WILLIAM FIENNES, PETER MURPHY, AIFRIC CAMPBELL, ED O'LOUGHLIN, SIMON SCHAMA, ANNE MICHAELS, ZOË HELLER, GEOFF DYER, COLM TÓIBÍN, JULIA O'FAOLAIN, CLAIRE KILROY, CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY, MJ HYLAND, PAULA MEEHAN, LEANNE O'SULLIVAN, SHANE CONAUGHTON, JOE QUEENAN, BRENDAN KENNELLY, SARAH WATERSTom Stoppard, J. P. Donleavy, Ivana Bacik, Roy Foster, Alan Gilsenan and David McWilliams, Catherine McCartney, Carlo Gébler, Susan McKay and Patrick Maguire, David Grossman, Kathy Lette, Marian Keyes, Ian Rankin, Colin Bateman
Festival website: www.dublinwritersfestival.com
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