Author Lucy Caldwell in Conversation with Anne Flaherty
Date and time
Wednesday 21st September 2022, 18:30 - 21:00
Description
LITERARY INTERVIEWS AUTUMN 2022
WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER @ 7 pm
LUCY CALDWELL in Conversation with Anne Flaherty
About Lucy Caldwell: Born in Belfast, Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and two collections of short stories: Multitudes (2016) and Intimacies (2021). She is also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (2019).
Lucy’s work has attracted numerous awards, including the Rooney Prize for Literature, the George Devine Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Imison Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Irish Writers’ and Screenwriters’ Guild Award, the Commonwealth Writers’ Award (Canada & Europe), the Edge Hill Short Story prize Readers’ Choice Award, a Fiction Uncovered Award, a K. Blundell Trust Award, a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the BBC National Short Story Award. Lucy is a former RLF Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, and she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018.
Lucy will discuss her latest novel, these days, which vividly portrays the under-explored and mostly unknown history of the Belfast Blitz. Against the devastation of the Easter Raids, a series of German airstrikes on the city in April and May 1941, the novel charts the consequences of wartime events on two sisters, Audrey and Emma Bell and their mother Florence. These days was published to critical acclaim earlier this year. Hilary Mantel described it as adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying: this is a novel of real substance.
About Anne Flaherty: a journalist born in London and growing up in County Clare, Anne has worked for the Irish Press in Dublin and the Irish Times in Belfast as well as reporting from Africa and Asia. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA in Anglo-Irish Writing from Queen's University Belfast and an MA in Children's Literature from the University of Surrey.