ILFDublin Podcast

Erling Kagge in conversation with Manchán Magan at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2019. ILFDublin is an initiative of Dublin City Council, kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Naomi Klein in conversation with Lorna Gold at the National Stadium, Dublin, as part of a special International Literature Festival Dublin Off The Page event. The Festival returns Autumn 2020. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at the Convention Centre Dublin, as part of the 2018 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 17th - 26th 2019. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Rachel Kushner in conversation with Rob Doyle at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2018 International Literature Festival Dublin. The festival returns May 2019. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Richard Ford in conversation with Brendan Barrington at The Pillar Room, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Jo Nesbø in conversation with Hugh Linehan at the RDS Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Colm Tóibín in conversation with Sinéad Crowley at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Rebecca Solnit in conversation with John Hutchinson at Smock Alley Theatre, as part of the 2013 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Arundhati Roy in conversation with Selina Guinness at the RDS Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Elizabeth Strout in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson at the O'Reilly Theatre, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Werner Herzog in conversation with Carlo Gebler at the National Concert Hall, as part of the 2017 International Literature Festival Dublin. The Festival returns May 19th - 27th 2018. See www.ilfdublin.com for the latest news and programme info.

Having been mentored by Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) at the famous Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, Paul Harding became the first debut novelist in over a decade to win the Pulitzer Prize, for his 2010 novel Tinkers, ‘a beautiful, moving and elegiac lament on the human condition’ (The Times). John Boyne found international fame with his 2006 novel for younger readers The Bo...

Sofi Oksanen has long been celebrated in her native Finland. But it was her bestselling novel Purge, a dazzling tale of two generations of Estonia women grappling with Soviet occupation and the sudden freedoms of the 1990s, that shot her to international fame. She talks to award-winning Soviet historian Anne Applebaum about When the Doves Disappeared, a novel that tells the gripping story of two c...

“Jane Austen’s story and Joanna Trollope’s voice make the perfect marriage.” Sophie Kinsella “Baker not only creates a richly imagined story of her own but recasts Austen’s novel in a startlingly fresh light.” The Guardian Chairperson: Edel Coffey In recent years Jane Austen’s work has inspired a host of new novels, from PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley to Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride & Prejudice...

‘Translating Ireland’ brings together three leading Irish novelists to share their experiences of being translated, read excerpts from their work, and to talk about the translations that have most inspired them. In novels like A Long, Long Way (Ein Langer, Langer Weg in German, trans. Hans-Christian Oeser), Sebastian Barry has shone a light into the dark corners of Irish life, focusing on the ordi...

Autobiography? Fiction? Essay? When I Love Dick was published in the US back in 1997, readers weren’t sure what to make of it. But over the last 20 years the ‘novel’, like Kraus herself, has acquired an army of devoted fans. For one thing, it’s very funny. I Love Dick tells the story of ‘Chris’, a ‘failed’ video artist who falls for, and writes a series of love letters to, her husband’s friend Dic...

The trumpet-playing surfer Marcus du Sautoy might be ‘the world’s least likely maths professor’ (The Guardian), but over the last decade he has done more than any mathematician before him to transform public attitudes to maths. Through books, TV series, radio programmes and public lectures, Du Sautoy’s infectious enthusiasm, coupled with a rare ability to explain complex ideas, has opened our mind...

Maeve Brennan’s short stories have long been admired by writers and cherished by readers. Born in Dublin in 1917, she became a staff writer at the New Yorker, and brought her formidable powers of perception and scathing wit to stories of childhood, marriage, longing and exile before dying in obscurity in the early nineties. Now a new edition of her celebrated Dublin stories, The Springs of Affecti...

Since We Need to Talk About Kevin, her dazzling novel about the mother of a high school murderer, won the Orange Prize in 2005 and catapulted her to international fame, Lionel Shriver has continued her fearless exploration of some of the biggest questions of our time. From illness in So Much for That to love in The Post-Birthday World and terrorism in The New Republic, Shriver skewers her targets...

Jon Ronson in conversation with Irish journalist Shane Hegarty, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin 2011. -- Jon Ronson is a Welsh journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter whose works include the best-selling The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) and The Psychopath Test (2011). Ronson has published nine books and his work has appeared in British publications such a...

Join ILFDublin for a whistle-stop tour around the world of Oliver Jeffers, interviewed here by Margaret Anne Suggs. -- Northern Irish artist Oliver Jeffers' picture books have been translated into over 30 languages. He won an Emmy in 2010 for his collaborative work with MacPremo, with whom he co-directed the U2 video 'Ordinary Love' in 2013.

Performer, writer, director and political activist, Margaretta D'arcy is a tireless and inspirational figure. She worked in theatre from the age of fifteen, first as an actress and then as an accomplished playwright, but it is perhaps as an activist that she is best known. Over the years her activism has taken many forms, from anti-nuclear campaigns to the H-Block protests in Armagh (an experience...

Writer Naomi Klein in conversation with Aine Lawlor, as part of International Literature Festival Dublin.

Irvine Welsh in conversation at #ILFDublin in 2015.

Suzanne O'Sullivan in conversation at International Literature Festival Dublin, 2015.