Note: some of the links in this post will bring you to amazon.co.uk Just under a year ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Marion Kelly for her Parlour Review on what was then known as FM 103.2 Anna Livia, but is now known as Dublin City FM, on the 103.2 FM band. [...]
Banville did it, Roddy Doyle did it, John McGahern, Sebastian Barry and Colm TóibÃn came close, but Anne Enright joins the tiny elite of Irish writers, and is the first Irish woman, to win the Man Booker Prize. Wonderful. The Gathering Wins the Man Booker [photo credit: Joe O'Shaughnessy] Complete List of Booker Winners Anne [...]
Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her citation reads: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny” Doris Lessing The citation for the IPCC and Al Gore reads The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 [...]
Two new books, out of thousands of others, are on the shelves today – The Wow Signal, by Patrick Chapman, and Redemption Falls, by Joseph O’Connor There are so many Irish books coming on stream that it’s not practical for me to mention them all, but I mention Patrick because he’s my colleague and co-founder [...]