Colum McCann
- from: 09.12.2008
- to: 11.12.2008
agenda
From 9th to 11th December 2008
Practical
Several venues in Lorient (see below)Colum McCann was born in the Dublin suburbs in 1965. He left for the United States when he was 19 years old and now lives in New York.
He tells of this experience in the US in Sisters, his first narrative, (Hennessy Prize for Irish Literature and the New Writer of the Year in 1992). Though he has read Beckett, Joyce and Yeats, his true literary roots are American.
He is the author of such novels as Songdogs, This Side of Brightness, Dancer (retracing Nureev's steps), Zoli, and two short story collections, Fishing the Sloe-Black River which was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1994 and Everything in This Country Must, a collection of short fiction deeply rooted in the troubled waters of resistance in Northern Ireland and set in Galway and Derry. Belfond and Editions 10/18 publish all his works in French.
Tuesday, December 9th:
- 18:00, CDDB - Théâtre de Lorient - National Drama School
Coordination: Claire Roussarie
Moderator: Frédéric Ferney
In partnership with the L'Imaginaire and Comme si la Terre se penchait bookshops
11 rue Claire Droneau - 56100 Lorient
Wednesday, December 10th:
- Afternoon (time to be announced), Bretagne Sud University
Meeting with students of foreign languages, literatures and civilisations. With the participation of the European department (English) of the Lycée Dupuy de Lôme (Lorient)
Coordination: Yves Gastineau, educational head
Moderator: Shannon Wells, lecturer (LLCE)
Université de Bretagne Sud - 56100 Lorient
- 17:00, Bretagne Sud University
Moderators, Shannon Wells, Yann Lucas, literary journalist with Ouest France (to be confirmed)
Université de Bretagne Sud - 56100 Lorient
Evening (time to be announced), Galway Inn Pub
18 rue de Belgique - 56100 Lorient
The meetings with Colum McCann in Lorient are organized in collaboration with the CDDB - Théâtre de Lorient, the university, the university library, the multimedia libraries of the Lorient area, the Interceltic Festival and the Brittany-Ireland Association.
Thursday, December 11th:
- 11:00, Rennes II University
Coordination; Centre for Irish Studies
Moderators: Anne Goarzin and Emmanuel Boujou
- Updated: 30.12.2008
