ILFDublin Podcast

ILFDublin Podcast

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ILFDublin Podcast episodes

  • Jo Nesbø in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast
    Jo Nesbø in conversation with Hugh Linehan at the RDS Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin.
    The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.
    1 hr
  • Colm Tóibín in Conversation - ILFDublin Podcast
    Colm Tóibín in conversation with Sinéad Crowley at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin.
    The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.
    1 hr 12 min
  • John Boyne and Paul Harding In Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast
    Having been mentored by Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) at the famous Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, Paul Harding became the first debut novelist in over a decade to win the Pulitzer Prize, for his 2010 novel Tinkers, ‘a beautiful, moving and elegiac lament on the human condition’ (The Times).
    John Boyne found international fame with his 2006 novel for younger readers The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It won two Irish Book Awards, topped the New York Times Bestseller list and was made into an award-winning Miramax film. His ninth novel (his seventh for adults) is The Absolutist, a tender and poignant story of two young privates during the Great War whose lives are briefly but intensely intertwined.
    Chairperson: Niall MacMonagle
    1 hr 7 min
  • Sofi Oksanen In Conversation - ILF Dublin Podcast
    Sofi Oksanen has long been celebrated in her native Finland. But it was her bestselling novel Purge, a dazzling tale of two generations of Estonia women grappling with Soviet occupation and the sudden freedoms of the 1990s, that shot her to international fame. She talks to award-winning Soviet historian Anne Applebaum about When the Doves Disappeared, a novel that tells the gripping story of two cousins – principled freedom fighter Roland and slippery Edgar – whose paths cross in the 1960s, when Edgar is a communist apparatchik desperate to conceal his past.
    1 hr 12 min
  • Reimagining Austen: Jo Baker and Joanna Trollope - ILF Dublin Podcast
    “Jane Austen’s story and Joanna Trollope’s voice make the perfect marriage.”
    Sophie Kinsella
    “Baker not only creates a richly imagined story of her own but recasts Austen’s novel in a startlingly fresh light.”
    The Guardian
    Chairperson: Edel Coffey
    In recent years Jane Austen’s work has inspired a host of new novels, from PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley to Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. But what are the pitfalls of adapting classics for the modern age? Should you expect your readers to know the originals, and what happens when you change the point of view? Jo Baker certainly does: Longbourn reimagines the story of Pride and Prejudice from the servants’ point of view. Sarah is a housemaid at Longbourn House, where the servants are ruled with an iron fist by Mrs Hill, but the arrival of a new footman turns the Bennet household upside down. Joanne Trollope is one of the UK’s best-loved and most successful authors. Her Sense & Sensibility is the first novel in the Austen Project: a publishing venture designed to bring Austen’s work to a new generation, and Trollope brings the story of the Dashwood sisters bang up to date, complete with drugs, depression and internet trolls.
    1 hr 7 min
  • Translating Ireland with Sebastian Barry, Anne Enright and Hugo Hamilton - ILF Dublin Podcast
    ‘Translating Ireland’ brings together three leading Irish novelists to share their experiences of being translated, read excerpts from their work, and to talk about the translations that have most inspired them. In novels like A Long, Long Way (Ein Langer, Langer Weg in German, trans. Hans-Christian Oeser), Sebastian Barry has shone a light into the dark corners of Irish life, focusing on the ordinary people whose lives are neglected, forgotten or written out of history. Booker Prize-winner Anne Enright is celebrated for her capacity to explore serious issues with compassion and wry humour in works like The Forgotten Waltz (La Valse Oubliée in French, trans. Isabelle Reinharez). Hugo Hamilton is the bestselling author of seven novels and two memoirs, including The Speckled People (Sproetenkoppen in Dutch, trans. Miebeth Van Horn), a memoir of his German-Irish childhood that won a clutch of European awards.
    1 hr 44 min

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The International Literature Festival Dublin, founded in 1998, is Ireland’s premier literary event and gathers the finest writers in the world to debate, provoke, delight and enthral.