An Evening with Colum McCann

Posted on: 13 October 2015

Bestselling Irish author Colum McCann discussed his latest novel at an event hosted by the School of English and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature on Thursday, October 8th, 2015 in the Edmund Burke Theatre.

At the event Colum McCann read from his new book, Thirteen Ways of Looking, and also discussed his work in interview with Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at the School of English.

Professor Chris Morash, Head of the School of English said: “The School of English is delighted to mark the publication of a new work by one of Ireland’s most important novelists, Colum McCann. The School is also delighted to be teaming up again with Dublin UNESCO City of Literature to promote great literature in the city of Dublin.  Working in Trinity, it is impossible not be constantly aware that the campus is one of the city’s vital organs, with flows of all sorts of people – not just students and academics – constantly passing through the gates.  This confers the pleasant responsibility to support important initiatives like the UNESCO City of Literature designation.”

Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing, with author Colum McCann

Jane Alger, Director, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, added:  “As a former winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award we are delighted to welcome Colum back to Dublin for this event to celebrate the publication of his new book.”

Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He has received many honours, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government, and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace.

He has been named one of Esquire’s “Best and Brightest,” and his short film Everything in This Country Must was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing programme. He lives in New York City with his wife and their three children, and he is the cofounder of the global nonprofit story exchange organisation, Narrative 4.

Media Coverage:

Irish Times, October 3, 2015

Irish Times, October 1, 2015

 

Photo Credit: Brendan Bourke

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