Irish writer Audrey Magee talks about her work, including her Booker Prize-nominated novel “The Colony”.
At a glance
- Irish Literature: Audrey Magee in conversation with Prof Gesa Stedman, Centre for British Studies
- When: Monday 18 May, 6 pm
- Where: Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin, 1st floor, Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Str. 60, 10117 Berlin
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About the speaker
Audrey Magee worked for twelve years as a journalist for publications such as The Times, The Irish Times, The Observer and The Guardian. She studied German and French at University College Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University. Her first novel, “The Undertaking”, was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, France’s Festival du Premier Roman and the Irish Book Awards. Magee’s second novel, “The Colony”, was published in 2022 and later in Germany in 2024. The book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2022 and won the InWords Literary Award the following year.
The reading is a joint event organised by the Irish Embassy in Berlin and the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität.