Interview: Pierre Assouline
Saturday 23 March 2024 at 12pm – Castle Hall, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2
Pierre Assouline is a journalist, biographer and novelist, born in Casablanca in 1953. He has published more than forty books and written a number of television documentaries. He has also presented literary programmes on the radio, on France Inter (1986-1990) followed by RTL (1990-1999), before hosting the daily morning show on France Culture; he was a columnist for Le Monde, then for L’Express, a critic for Le Nouvel Observateur, and a member of the editorial board of the monthly magazine L'Histoire. Pierre Assouline is also a blogger on the site La République des livres, which he set up in 2005. A Member of the Académie Goncourt since 2012, he also teaches literary composition at Sciences-Po Paris.
Interviewed by Michael Cronin
All Festival Events
22-24 March 2024
Opening Night:
"INCIPIT"
Reading
Friday 22 March – 7pm
Alliance Française Dublin
Panel Discussion:
Bitter-Sweet: Tastes & Sensation
Saturday 23 March – 10.30am
Dublin Castle
Interview:
Pierre
Assouline
Saturday 23 March – 12pm
Dublin Castle
Screening:
Les Carnets de Julie: A la table de Colette
Saturday 23 March – 1pm
Dublin Castle
Panel Discussion:
Bad Taste?
Mauvais Goût?
Saturday 23 March – 2pm
Dublin Castle
Panel Discussion:
A Matter of
Taste…
Saturday 23 March – 3.30pm
Dublin Castle
Slam Performance:
Stephen James
Smith
Saturday 23 March – 5pm
Dublin Castle
Interview:
Marina
Carr
Saturday 23 March – 5.45pm
Dublin Castle
Panel Discussion:
Emerging
Tastes
Sunday 24 March – 11am
Alliance Française Dublin
Interview:
Amanda
Bankert
Sunday 24 March – 12.45pm
Alliance Française Dublin
Events in English, Irish and French. Simultaneous interpreting is provided in English and French.
Admission free for all events on a first come/first served basis. To avoid disappointment, we advise
people to come early.
No advance booking required, except for the reading performance on Friday evening.
Please note this programme subject to change.
Other events
throughout the Festival
Book Sales
Saturday 23 March
9.45am - 7pm
(Dublin Castle)
International Books pop-up shop
will feature books by writers
participating in the Festival and
other titles for all ages on the
theme of “Taste”
Book Signings
Saturday 23 March
11.30 pm – 12 pm
3pm – 3.30 pm
4.3 pm – 4.45pm
(Dublin Castle)
Sunday 24 March
1.15 pm – 1.45 pm
(Alliance Française Dublin)
Exhibitors
Saturday 23 March
9.45am - 7pm
(Dublin Castle)
Exhibitors this year include
the Alliance Française French Library
the grocery store Le Goudalier
and Silk Road Café will be providing beverages & pastries in between events
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