Venue: Various locations, Dublin City Centre
Dublin Writers Festival, Ireland's premier literary event, gathers the finest writers in the world to debate, provoke , delight and enthral.
Described by the press as "boasting a stunning array of top international literary talent" and "the country's most successful and easily the best annual literary event", Dublin Writers Festival line-up is sure to impress. With readings, discussions, debates,workshops, performance and screenings, the festival creates a hotbed of ideas. Whether it's the mix poets, writers of fiction and non-fiction, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters, Dublin Writers Festival brings new faces and house-hold names together in ways that suprise and inspire. Children's fiction is well represented and we are spoilt for choice with the calibre of Irish language writers. Come celebrate many specially commissioned events in the City of Words.
The full Dublin's Writers Festival programme will be released on May 2nd. However there are a few handpicked selection of very special events that will go on sale from April 16th, which include songwriters turned novelists Josh Ritter and James Fearnley with his Pogues memoir, best-selling fantasy author of the Inheritance series, Christoper Paolini and, in a great honour for the festival, Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Of course there is much more to come - so earmark the 2nd of May in your diaries and visit
Josh Ritter in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson
Liberty Hall | 4 June 2012 | 3pm
'Bright’s Passage shines with a compressed lyricism that recalls Ray Bradbury in his prime… This is the work of a gifted novelist…' Stephen King, New York Times Book Review
As a songwriter Josh Ritter is a natural born storyteller in the Dylan/Guthrie mould, distilling full character-driven narratives into concise and compelling vignettes. It comes as little surprise therefore that the alt-folk/Americana star should make such a deft transition to full-length fiction. Ritter's forthcoming debut novel, Bright’s Passage, is the story of Henry Bright, newly returned to West Virginia from the battlefields of the First World War. Cast adrift, his only hope is the angel who followed him to Appalachia from the trenches of France and who now guides him and his young son towards uncertain salvation.
Tickets €12 / €10 concession
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The Prince of Dragons: Christopher Paolini
Liberty Hall | 7 June 2012 | 6pm
Christopher Paolini’s stratospheric success story is almost as outlandish as the epic teenage fantasy series that brought him fame and fortune. Christopher produced the first draft of the self-published Eragonat the tender age of 15. By 19 he had secured a major publishing deal and Eragon had become a fantasy fiction phenomenon. Two sequels – Eldest (2005) and Brisingr (2008) followed, upping the stakes of this Tolkein-esque saga and expanding the imaginative realm of the author’s fictional Alagaësia. Now the epic Inheritance cycle comes to a breathtaking conclusion as its dragon-riding hero embarks on his final quest – to vanquish the evil King Galbatorix and bring justice to Alagaësia.
Tickets €5
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Here Comes Everyone: The Story of the Pogues
James Fearnley in conversation
with live performance and special guests
Liberty Hall | 8 June 2012 | 8pm
'It's just how I imagined I'd remember it.' Shane McGowan
The Pogues’ founding member and accordion player reads from and discusses his new memoir Here Comes Everybody. Written with real lyricism and rare candour, Here Comes Everybody recalls the youthful friendships, the bust-ups, the amazing gigs, the terrible gigs, the fantastic highs and dramatic lows of life in one of music's most explosive and exuberant bands.
Tickets €15 / €12.50 concession
Download Dublin Writers Festival Programme to view all events.
See also:
W: www.dublinwritersfestival.com
F: www.facebook.com/dublinwritersfestival
T: https://twitter.com/#!/dubwritersfest