Irish Voices literary series

Join us for the second series of the free literary event "Irish Voices", organised by the Swiss Centre of Irish Studies (UZH)! Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three collections of short stories. Her latest novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott prize for Historical Fiction. Set in Belfast during the Blitz, the novel follows two sisters as they navigate early adulthood. We will discuss Lucy's novels and her upcoming short-story collection, Devotions, which will be published in April. The reading and discussion will be in English, at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation (Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich)
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Join us for the second edition of the free literary series Irish Voices, with the poet, novelist and short story writer Caoilinn Hughes. Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and The Wild Laughter, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Centre Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and will be a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library for 2023-2024. We will discuss her latest novel, The Alternatives, which centres around four sisters who try to reconnect when the eldest seemingly vanishes into the Irish countryside.
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