Author Christine Dwyer Hickey in Conversation
with Niall MacMonagle
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This event will explore award-winning Christine Dwyer Hickey’s development and range as a writer focusing especially on her latest novel Our London Lives. Structure, setting and characterisation in this impressive work will be
discussed and Dwyer Hickey will offer insights into her creative process and writing techniques. Christine has published 9 novels, a short story collection and a full-length play. Her work has been translated into several languages both European and Arabic. She has won many awards including the Walter Scott Prize 2020 and the Dalkey Literary Award for her novel The Narrow Land and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year for The Cold Eye of Heaven. Niall MacMonagle, writer and critic, has edited several anthologies including the Lifelines series, the Poetry Now textbooks, Windharp, Poems of Ireland since 1916, and Paul Durcan 80 at 80. He writes a weekly art column for the Sunday Independent and in 2017 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by UCD for services to literature. |