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Colm Toibin
(Sat 24th)
Colm Tóibin Colm Tóibín's fiction includes: The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes: Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross and Love in a Dark Time. In The Master, his brilliant and profoundly moving fifth novel, Colm Tóibín tells the story of Henry James, an American-born genius of the modern novel who became a connoisseur of exile, living among artists and aristocrats in Paris, Rome, Venice and London. "In The Master, Colm Tóibín takes us almost shockingly close to the soul of Henry James and, by extension, to the mystery of art itself. It is a remarkable, utterly original book " Michael Cunningham "Colm Tóibín has a perfect understanding of the greatest of all American writers. A sustained performance worthy of the Master" Edmund White
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Entertainment Centre For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com Back to topDave Eggers Dave Eggers is the author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity! In 1998, he founded McSweeney's, an independent publishing house located in San Francisco and in 2002 he opened 826 Valencia, a writing lab for young people located in the Mission District of San Francisco. With the help of his workshop students, Eggers edits a collection of fiction, essays, and journalism called The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His fiction has appeared in Zoetrope, Punk Planet, and The New Yorker. He has recently written introductions to new editions of books by Edward Wallant, John Cheever and Mark Twain, and is currently working on the biography of Dominic Arou, a refugee from the Sudan now living in Atlanta. He has just completed a collection of short stories called How We Are Hungry which will be published by McSweeney?s later this year. A serial novel about electoral politics is currently appearing on Salon. He writes regularly about art and music for various magazines and his design work has been featured in many periodicals.
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Entertainment Centre For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com Back to topFrancis Wheen In his latest book How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, Francis Wheen evokes the key personalities of the post-political era - including Princess Diana, Osama Bin-Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer - while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. From UFO scares to dotcom mania, his hilarious and gloriously impassioned polemic describes a period in the world's history when everything began to stop making sense. Francis Wheen has worked as a diarist on many newspapers and magazines, he has been a book reviewer for Gay News, a theatre critic for Today, a news editor for New Socialist and a contributing editor of Tatler. Having presented News-Stand on BBC Radio 4 for a number of years, he has appeared often on ITV's What the Papers Say and more recently on BBC2's Have I Got News For You. He is now the writer of Wheen's World a regular column appearing in The Guardian - for which he was voted Columnist of the Year - as well as working for Private Eye (allegedly?). His previous books include The Sixties, Television, The Battle for London, Tom Driberg which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award, and Karl Marx.
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Entertainment Centre For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com Back to topJohn Lahr John Lahr has been senior drama critic for The New Yorker since 1992. A veteran of all aspects of the theatre, Lahr is the son of the actor Bert Lahr, whom he immortalised in his best-selling biography, Notes on a Cowardly Lion. Lahr has published seventeen books on the theatre, and two novels. In 2001 he edited The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan and his book Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles, was hailed by The Sunday Times as a dazzling collection. Lahr?s craftsmanship is awesome. He co-produced the 1987 film Prick Up Your Ears, based on his Joe Orton biography of the same name. Lahr has also written numerous movie scripts and his short film Sticky My Fingers, Fleet My Feet was nominated for an Academy Award in 1971. Lahr has written numerous stage adaptations including The Manchurian Candidate and The Bluebird of Unhappiness: A Woody Allen Revue, and he is the co-creator of the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Elaine Stritch at Liberty.
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Entertainment Centre For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com Back to topVevgeny Yevtushenko For nearly half a century Vevgeny Yevtushenko has been a piercing voice of conscience and today he is among the world's most widely admired living writers. Born in Zima, Yevtushenko moved to Moscow in 1944. His first important narrative poem Zima Junction was published in 1956 but he gained international fame in 1961 with Babi Yar, in which he denounced Nazi and Russian anti-Semitism. Yevtushenko's demands for greater artistic freedom and his attacks on Stalinism and bureaucracy in the late 1950s and 60s made him a leader of Soviet youth. The publication in Paris of his A Precocious Autobiography in 1963 brought him severe official censure and he was frequently criticised by the Russian government for his nonconfirmist attitude. In 1972 Yevtushenko gained huge success with his play Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty. Since the 1970s he has been active in many fields of culture, writing novels, notably Wild Berries, essays, and the semiautobiographical, post-Soviet work Don?t Die Before You?re Dead. In addition, he is an actor, director, and photographer. In 1989 Yevtushenko became member of the Congress of People's Deputies. Since 1990 he has been vice president of Russian PEN. He was appointed honorary member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987.
Venue: Radisson SAS Hotel Entertainment Centre For booking phone +353 91 566577, email: info@galwayartsfestival.ie, or book online at www.galwayartsfestival.com Back to top |
