The ICC Digital Literary Festival features some of the stalwarts of Irish literature alongside recent bestselling authors.

This interview features author Donal Ryan in conversation with Keith Hopper. First published on ICC Digital on 22/11.

Donal is the author of four highly acclaimed novels – The Spinning Heart (2012), The Thing About December (2013), All We Shall Know (2016) and From a Low and Quiet Sea (2018). In addition to being longlisted for the Booker Prize, The Spinning Heart won Irish Book of the Year, Irish Book of the Decade, and The European Prize for Literature. From A Low and Quiet Sea was longlisted for the Man Booker prize and shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize. Donal has also published a collection of short stories, A Slanting of The Sun (2015) for which he won Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. 

In Donal’s interview he will be discussing his latest novel Strange Flowers (2020).

The ICC Digital Literary festival features some of the stalwarts of Irish literature alongside recent bestselling authors.

Listen to author Emma Donoghue in conversation with Anne Flaherty in this one-hour recorded interview. First published on ICC Digital on 18/11.

About Emma Donoghue: Since her first ground-breaking and award-winning novels, Stir-Fry (1994) and Hood (1995) Emma has become a prolific novelist, short story writer, literary historian and playwright. Amongst other works, she has written 13 novels, 5 collections of short stories and 17 radio plays.

She is best known for her international bestseller Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and won Irish Novel of the Year 2010, New York Times Best Book of 2010 and The Commonwealth Prize for Fiction (2011). The film Room won numerous awards and her adapted screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a Bafta award.

The ICC Digital Literary festival features some of the stalwarts of Irish literature alongside recent bestselling authors.

Listen to author Roddy Doyle in conversation with Carlo Gébler in this one-hour recorded interview. First published on ICC Digital on 15/11.

About Roddy Doyle: Roddy is the author of 11 highly acclaimed novels including The Commitments, The Snapper, and The Van. He has written two collections of short stories, The Deportees and Other Stories,  and Bullfighting, along with four plays, two screenplays and a memoir about his parents, Rory and Ita. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including The BAFTA Award (Best Adapted Screenplay) for The Commitments, (1991), the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (1993), The Irish PEN award (2009), the French Literary Award for The Snapper (2011) and Bord Gáis Energy Book of the Year for The Guts (2013). Roddy’s most recent novel, Love, has been serialised as a Book of The Week for BBC Radio Four.