International Festival of Arts & Ideas
The Irish Literary Landscape
Season 3 / Episode 8 Episode Archive
About this series:
Every year in June, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas bring together a diverse group of artists, writers, thinkers and world leaders to discuss the most pressing issues in art, society, politics and the environment. Every other week through out the year we share with our web audience our featured broadcasts of these events. Our eclectic program offers a mix of serious, controversial, and whimsical topics, all designed to inspire new ways of thinking.
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Jan 25, 2012
01:30:28
Learning
Three generations of Irish writers share their stories and discuss writing for the 21st Century. Featuring Colm Toibin, an award-wining novelist, sh...
Three generations of Irish writers share their stories and discuss writing for the 21st Century. Featuring Colm Toibin, an award-wining novelist, short-story writer and critic whose bittersweet novel Brooklyn (2009) was awarded the Costa Fiction Award, and Belinda McKeon, a Brooklyn transplant, journalist, playwright and writer. She has written for The Irish Times, The Paris Review, and her extraordinary debut novel Solace: A Novel was published in May 2011.
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