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Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards The Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards took place last night with winners in fifteen book categories.  The Green Road by Anne Enright, was chosen as the Eason Book Club Novel of the Year and Spill Simmer…

Germaine Greer’s Love Letters A 30,000 word love letter penned by Germaine Greer to her former lover and writer, Martin Amis, has been discovered amongst an archive of Greer’s work, which she donated to the University of Melbourne in…

Mrs Shakespeare was performed at the Boy’s School in Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin last month, marking the end of a successful tour; where it appeared at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Cherry Lane Theatre in Broadway and The Bear Pit Theatre in…

Dublin Book Festival This year the Dublin Book Festival has scheduled over 50 events with nearly 100 authors and contributors taking part over four days. Smock Alley Theatre, hub of the festival, will host the magical Winter Garden again…

Moscow Library of Ukranian Books A library in Moscow was subjected to a police raid last week, targeting ‘anti-Russian’ books, and have detained its director, Natalya Sharina, accusing her of ‘inciting ethnic hatred’. The library first…

NaNoWriMo It’s almost November, this is disgusting, I know. But November also means that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is here again, encouraging aspiring story-tellers to get those words down onto the page. You can sign up to…

Festival Bites Bram Stoker Festival will take place from 23rd to the 26th of October. I promise I will control the urge to make vampire puns while sharing some of this year’s excellent array of events. The Scary Trail will guide…

Listen to Lingo Attention please: Lingo has arrived. The spoken word festival will kick off today, Friday 16th October until Sunday 18th. It will host story tellers, artists and truth searchers in bars and theatres and cafes around Dublin.…

Nobel Prize Winner Svetlana Alexievich Svetlana Alexievich has won the Nobel Prize for Literature 'for her polyphonic writings … a monument to sufferings in our time'. Alexievich, a prominent critic of the Russian regime, and author of…

Authors Appeal to Chinese President to Release Jailed Writers More than 40 authors have submitted a letter to the president of China, Xi Jinping, urging him to reconsider the imprisonment of four Chinese writers and public figures - for…