Rewarding Rewording
In a series of public interviews, three of Ireland's finest writers discuss the multi-faceted nature of writing and adaptation.
Part of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.
EMMA DONOGHUE SEPT. 29TH 6.00PM
Writer Emma Donoghue in conversation about translating the literary life of Maeve Brennan to stage.
Emma Donoghue in conversation with Director Annabelle Comyn.
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Venue: The Gate Lab
HUGO HAMILTON Oct. 11th 6.00pm
Hugo Hamilton on adapting his award winning novel The Speckled People for the Gate stage.
Hugo Hamilton in conversation with Derek Scally, Irish Times Berlin Correspondent.
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Venue: Gate Theatre Auditorium
Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of THE SPECKLED PEOPLE (4th Estate), a German-Irish memoir of growing up in Dublin during the 50s with a fervent Irish nationalist father and German mother who came to Ireland in the aftermath of World War 2. The memoir has found resonance right across the globe and has now been adapted by the author for the stage with its world premiere at the Gate Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2011.
Hailed as an ‘instant classic’ by Roy Foster, his account of German-Irish childhood addresses all the ‘great issues of the 20th century’(Nuala O'Faolain). Joseph O'Connor described THE SPECKLED PEOPLE as a ‘book for our times and perhaps for all time’. It won the prestigious PRIX FEMINA etranger in France, as well as the BERTO PRIZE in Italy, and appeared on the New York Times notable books list.
His equally ‘rich and compelling’ second memoir The Sailor in the Wardrobe which continues this complex dual upbringing in a ‘language war` where he was prohibited from speaking English, has also been praised an ‘enchanting piece of work’ (Terry Eagleton).
He is the acclaimed author of two memoirs, seven novels and one collection of short stories, all of which reflect on issues of cultural divisions, belonging and identity. Hugo Hamilton lives in Dublin.
JOSEPH O’ CONNOR Oct. 12th 6.00pm
Writer Joseph O'Connor on his adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel for the Gate Stage.
Joseph O'Connor in conversation with Michael Colgan
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Venue: Gate Theatre Auditorium
Joseph O’Connor was born in Dublin. He is the author of the novels Cowboys and Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea and Redemption Falls, as well as a number of bestselling works of non-fiction. He has also written film scripts and stage-plays including the award-winning Red Roses and Petrol. His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 languages. It won France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy / Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year.
He was recently voted ‘Irish Writer of the Decade’ by the readers of Hot Press magazine. He broadcasts a popular weekly radio diary on RTE’s Drivetime With Mary Wilson and writes regularly for The Guardian Review and The Sunday Independent. In 2009 he was the Harman Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Baruch College, the City University of New York. His most recent novel Ghost Light was published in June 2010 to rave reviews internationally and spent nine weeks as a number one Irish besteller. It was chosen as Dublin’s One City One Book novel for 2011.
