The second reading in UCC’s 2017/18 School of English series features award-winning Canadian novelist and poet Jane Urquhart. Urquhart is the author of seven novels, four books of poetry, a volume of short fiction and a historical biography. She is the winner of the Governor General Award and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. – https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/authors/31747/jane-urquhart
Her latest novel, The Night Stages, is partly set in 1950s Ireland and centred around the famed Rás Tailteann bicycle race. Urquhart has had a home in Kerry for almost 20 years.
The reading will take place in the Creative Zone, Boole Library, UCC, on Tuesday, January 30 @ 7pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Other upcoming events in the series include:
February 27, 2018 – Roddy Doyle and Rooney Prizewinner, E.M Reapy
March 20, 2018 – “Writing Parents” – an evening with literary family biographers Carlo Gebler and Sally Phipps.
March 22, 2018 – “Writers on Campus” – inaugural John Montague Poetry Fellow Brian Turner and UCC Writer-in-Residence Thomas Morris
April 17, 2018 – Irish-American author Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland, winner of the 2009 Pen Faulkner Award.