Finnish author and film director Katja Kettu discusses her English-language debut novel The Midwife (AmazonCrossing, October 2016). Kettu’s novel brings to life a long-suppressed period of Finnish history. From the brutality of the World War II prison camps to the splendor of the aurora borealis over the Arctic Sea, The Midwife tells of a stormy romance, the desolate beauty of…
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On literature and political reality with Václav Havel's chief political advisor.
In this eighteenth annual Ernie O’Malley lecture, Dr. Eileen P. Sullivan discusses the nineteenth-century popular novels that defined Irish American identity and transformed American Catholic culture. The more than thirty novels, spanning the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, were published by Catholic houses in New York, Boston, and Baltimore, all owned by Irish immigrants. The novelists — six…
The Oscar-nominated writer of the worldwide bestseller Room returns to Irish Arts Center to read from her riveting new masterpiece, The Wonder,/i>. After Donoghue’s reading, she will be joined in conversation with American novelist and screenwriter Sheri Holman. Emma Donoghue again delves in to the emotional life of a child with an intimate and mysterious tale of two strangers and…