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24-26 March 2023

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Claire Kilroy

Ireland



Claire Kilroy is the author of four novels, All Summer, Tenderwire, All Names Have Been Changed, and The Devil I Know. Claire has been shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of theYear three times and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2004. She was an inaugural recipient in 2019 of the Markievicz Award. Her fifth novel, Soldier Sailor, will be published by Faber in May 2023. Lucy Caldwell has described it as “Breathtaking - the high voltage novel about motherhood that Plath might have written.”

Claire Kilroy est l’autrice des romans All Summer, Tenderwire, All Names Have Been Changed, et The Devil I Know. Claire a été sélectionnée à trois reprises pour le Prix du roman irlandais du groupe Kerry et a remporté le Prix Rooney de Littérature irlandaise en 2004. Elle reçoit en 2019 le prix inaugural du Markievicz Award. Son cinquième roman, Soldier Sailor, sera publié par l’éditeur Faber en mai 2023. Lucy Caldwell a décrit l’oeuvre comme étant « époustouflante - un roman électrique sur la maternité tel que Sylvia Plath aurait pu en écrire ».

Writers

We welcome this year 11 writers of French, English and Irish languages


Rémi David

France 

Martine Delvaux

Québec

Rokhaya Diallo

France

Claire Kilroy

Ireland

Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin

Ireland

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Ireland

Laura Nsafou

France

Donal Ryan

Ireland

Omar Youssef Souleimane

Syrie-France

David Toms

Norway-Ireland

Sophie White

Ireland

Presented by

Alliance Française Dublin
French Embassy in Ireland
Dublin Unesco

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