Dublin Writers Festival

by abevan on 15 May, 2008

The Dublin Writers Festival will take place from Wednesday 11th to Sunday 15th June inclusive.
Over the four days, Dublin will host over 40 Irish and international writers and poets, journalists, political commentators, and even lawyers for a series of readings, discussions, debates and public interviews. The Festival will explore the themes such as war, loss, national identity, Irish values, childhood, crime, and the art of the short story.
The 2008 line-up includes a special, rare retrospective event at the Project Arts Centre with multi-million selling author JP Donleavey. The Dublin Writers Festival will also celebrate the remarkable career of one of the seminal playwrights of 20th and 21st-century British culture, Tom Stoppard, at the Hamilton Building at Trinity College Dublin.
Modern Irish values is the topic of a wide ranging discussion with Ivana Bacik, Roy Foster, Alan Gilsenan and David McWilliams at the Project Arts Centre.
In her first visit to Dublin, Linn Ullmann, daughter of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, will join Esther Freud, daughter of Lucien Freud, for an exploration of childhood memory, family secrets and absent patriarchs.
Tobias Wolff, one of the great masters of the short story, teams up with Booker Prize Winner Anne Enright for an examination of the form, the challenges and the rewards that the short story can bring.
For full details of the programme and venues, go to http://www.dublinwritersfestival.com/