‘They said you’ve a call from the Nobel committee. I said, why?’ Harold Pinter has won the Nobel Prize, capping a week in which a retrospective of his plays was staged in the Gate Theatre in Dublin. About the reaction of certain elements of the press, he had this to say: They don’t like it [...]
John Banville wins the Man Booker Prize, for his 14th novel, The Sea (Picador), with his second nomination for the prize. His first nomination, for The Book of Evidence, was 14 years ago. His wry advice to other authors was “just hang around and it will come. I hung around for many years and it [...]
The new The Stinging Fly, issue 2, volume 2, is now on sale. Contributors include Simon Armitage, Siobhan Campbell, Philip Casey, Patrick Deeley, Tom Mac Intyre, Nuala Ní Chonchuir, Phiip Ó Ceallaigh and Sheila O’Hagan
Larks’ Eggs, Desmond Hogan’s New and Selected Stories, will be launched this evening in the Irish Writers’ Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, at 6pm. Guest speaker Mannix Flynn. The Lilliput Press