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Cúirt International Festival Of Literature
The Cúirt International Festival of Literature is an annual literary festival held since 1985 in Galway in Ireland. The Irish language word ''cúirt'' (pronounced ) means "court". The festival consists of a variety of events taking place over the course of a week each April with attendances and contributions from Irish and international writers. It includes readings of poetry and fiction, discussions, poetry slams, book launches, masterclasses, spoken and musical performances, multimedia events, theatre, and visual art. It was originally a poetry festival but its scope has broadened to include other forms. The festival is sponsored by Údarás na Gaeltachta; the NUI Galway, National University of Ireland, Galway; the Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council; Galway City Council; Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology; Fáilte Ireland; Foras na Gaeilge. Charlie Byrne's Bookshop hosts the festival's pop-up bookshop in the Town Hall Theatre (Galway), Town Hall Theatre each year. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Festival
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and fostering a love of literature and writing. Writers' conferences are sometimes designed to provide an intellectual and academic focus for groups of writers without the involvement of the general public. There are many literary festivals held around the world. Notable literary festivals include: Africa * Port Harcourt Book Festival, October 20–25 * Chinua Achebe Literary Festival, November 16 Asia Asia-Pacific * Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), held annually at Ubud, Bali in Indonesia (www.ubudwritersfestival.com) * Gateway Litfest, February/ March * Delhi Poetry Festival, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Dawe
Gerald Dawe (22 April 1952 – 29 May 2024) was an Irish poet, academic and literary critic. Life and career Gerald Dawe was born in north Belfast, Northern Ireland, and grew up with his mother, sister, and grandmother. He lived mostly in the Skegoniell area and attended Seaview Primary School and then Orangefield Boys Secondary School across the city in East Belfast. While at school, he participated in the Lyric Youth Theatre under the teacher and theatre director, Sam McCready. He also started to write poems and after a brief period living in London, he returned to the North and attended the College of Business Studies before proceeding to the fledgling New University of Ulster (1971-1974) where his professor was the literary critic and novelist, Walter Allen. At the university he was associated with the so-called Coleraine Cluster of poets and writers. In 1974, he graduated receiving a B.A.(Hons) in English. After graduation, Dawe worked briefly as an assistant librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates (born June 16, 1938) is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels ''Black Water (novella), Black Water'' (1992), ''What I Lived For'' (1994), and ''Blonde (novel), Blonde'' (2000), and her short story collections The Wheel of Love and Other Stories, ''The Wheel of Love'' (1970) and ''Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories'' (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award, for her novel ''Them (novel), Them'' (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019). Oates taught at Princeton University from 1978 to 2014, and is the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor Emerita in the Humanities with the Program in Creative Writing. From 2016 to 2020, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Simic
Dušan Simić ( sr-cyr, Душан Симић, ; May 9, 1938 – January 9, 2023), known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of ''The Paris Review''. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for '' The World Doesn't End'' and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for ''Selected Poems, 1963–1983'' and in 1987 for ''Unending Blues''. He was appointed the fifteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2007. Biography Early years Dušan Simić was born in Belgrade. In his early childhood, during World War II, he and his family were forced to evacuate their home several times to escape indiscriminate bombing of Belgrade. Growing up as a child in war-torn Europe shaped much of his worldview, Simic stated. In an interview from the '' Cortland Review'' he said, "Being one of the millions of displaced persons made an impression on me. In addition to my own little story of bad luck, I heard plenty of others. I'm still amazed by all the vilenes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burnside
John Burnside (19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024) was a Scottish writer. He was one of four poets (with Ted Hughes, Sean O'Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant) to have won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for a single book – in this case, for '' Black Cat Bone'' in 2011. In 2023, he won the David Cohen Prize in recognition of his full body of work. Life and works Burnside was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and raised in Cowdenbeath and Corby. He studied English and European Thought and Literature at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. A former computer software engineer, he was a freelance writer after 1996. He was a former Writer in Residence at the University of Dundee and was Professor in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, where he taught creative writing, literature and ecology and American poetry. His first collection of poetry, ''The Hoop'', was published in 1988 and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Other poetry collections by Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Ingoldsby
Patrick Ingoldsby (25 August 1942 – 1 March 2025) was an Irish poet and television presenter. He hosted children's television shows, wrote plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and was a newspaper columnist. From the mid-1990s, he withdrew from the mass media and was most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin (usually on Westmoreland Street or College Green). Early life Ingoldsby was born in Malahide, Dublin on 25 August 1942. He survived childhood polio and suffered its after-effects throughout his life. The playwright Maeve Ingoldsby was his second cousin. Career In the 1980s, Ingoldsby hosted RTÉ children's television shows named ''Pat's Hat'', ''Pat's Chat'', and ''Pat's Pals''. His plays include ''Bats or Booze or Both'' (Dublin, Project Arts Centre, 1977); ''Hisself'' (Dublin, Peacock Theatre, 1978); ''Rhymin' Simon'' (Peacock Theatre, 1978); ''When Am I Getting' Me Clothes'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Deeley
Patrick Deeley (born 1953) is an Irish poet. Patrick Deeley was born in Mullagh, Loughrea, County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 .... His poems have been widely published and anthologised in Ireland and abroad over the past forty years, and translated to French, Italian, Spanish and other languages. He has received awards, including the inaugural Dermot Healy Poetry Prize and the 2019 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. His works of fiction for younger readers include ''The Lost Orchard'', winner of the Eilís Dillon Award in 2001. His bestselling memoir, ''The Hurley Maker's Son'', was published by Doubleday Ireland/Transworld and shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. He formerly worked as a primary school principal in Dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rita Ann Higgins
Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955) is an Irish poet and playwright. Early life A native of Ballybrit, Galway, Higgins was one of thirteen children in a working-class household. She went to Briarhill National School, and Sisters of Mercy Convent, Galway. She married in 1973 but following the birth of her second child in 1977, contracted tuberculosis, forcing her to spend an extended period in a sanatorium. While confined, she began reading, and took to composing poems. She joined the Galway Writers' Workshop in 1982. Jessie Lendennie, editor of Salmon Publishing, encouraged Higgins and oversaw the publication of her first five collections. Career Higgins was Galway County's Writer-in-Residence in 1987, Writer in Residence at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 1994–95, Writer in Residence for Offaly County Council in 1998–99. She was Green Honors Professor at Texas Christian University, in October 2000. Other awards include a Peadar O'Donnell Award in 1989, several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McCarthy (poet)
Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague. Among McCarthy's contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation", were the writers and poets Theo Dorgan, Sean Dunne, Greg Delanty, Maurice Riordan and William Wall. McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including '' The Sorrow Garden'', ''The Lost Province'', ''Mr Dineen's Careful Parade'', ''The Last Geraldine Officer'', and ''Merchant Prince''. The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. He is also the author of two novels; ''Without Power'' and ''Asya and Christine''. He is married with two children and lives in Cork City where he worked in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Bourke
Eva Bourke (born 1946) is a German-born Irish poet. Biography Bourke was born in Germany but has lived for much of her life in Galway, Ireland. She studied German Literature and History of Art at the University of Munich. Towards the end of the seventies, she moved with her husband Eoin Bourke and her three children to Galway in the West of Ireland, where Eoin held the position of professor of German Literature at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has lived in Galway since, where she taught at the University of Galway. Bourke writes in English and has had seven collections of poetry published. Her translations of Irish poets into German appeared among others in the journals Die Horen, Akzente and in the anthology Grand Tour. Reisen durch die junge Lyrik Europas. She translated a volume of Elisabeth Borchers' poetry into English, a collection of the Irish poet Moya Cannon, and poems for two anthologies of Irish poetry into German. She has taught in creative writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Johnston (writer)
Fred Johnston (1951-2024) was an Irish poet, novelist, literary critic and musician. He was the founder and current director of the Western Writers' Centre in Galway. He co-founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative in 1974, and founded Galway's annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature in 1986. Life Johnson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a mixed, unorthodox background: his father's side were Belfast, Methodist Church in Ireland, Methodist, and both Unionism in Ireland, Unionist and Trade unionist; his mother's side were Dublin, Catholic, followers of Michael Collins (Irish leader), Michael Collins and admirers of the Elizabeth II, Queen. He spent the first seven years of his life in Toronto, Canada. He went to St Malachy's College's grammar school in Belfast from 1962–68. During these years he learnt guitar and banjo and listened to and played folk music. He performed on the cabaret lounge circuit, made appearances on UTV (TV channel), Ulster TV, rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
