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SUMMARY:Writing the World, Writing the Island: Irish Writers in Conversatio
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 . What is the current state of Irish literature? Five Irish writers discus
 s their work to help mark St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Berlin. What 
 are the ideas, styles and settings that concern Irish writers today? What 
 are the themes that resonate with audiences? Does being Irish make a diffe
 rence?Christine Dwyer Hickey and Paul Lynch will be interviewed about thei
 r writing practices by Dr Gesa Stedman, Professor of British Culture and L
 iterature. Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, Martin Doyle and Rónán Hession will be
  interviewed about their work by Kate Ferguson, journalist and anchor at D
 eutsche Welle.Christine Dwyer Hickey is a novelist, short story writer and
  playwright from Dublin. Her most recent novel, Our London Lives (Alle uns
 ere Leben, Unionsverlag 2025), was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year
  at the 2024 An Post Irish Book Awards. Her previous novels include Tatty,
  Last Train from Liguria, The Cold Eye of Heaven, and The Lives of Women. 
 Her 2019 novel, The Narrow Land (Schmales Land), was published in German b
 y Unionsverlag in 2022. She has won several major awards, including the pr
 estigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Literature Ireland ha
 s supported translations of Christine’s work into languages such as Germ
 an, Dutch, Italian, Arabic, Estonian, Danish and Polish.Paul Lynch is the 
 Booker Prize–winning author of five novels. His most recent novel, Proph
 et Song, was an international bestseller and won the 2023 Booker Prize and
  the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, among other honours. He has received num
 erous literary awards, including the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 
 and both France’s Prix Libr’à Nous and Prix des Libraires for Best Fo
 reign Novel, and has been shortlisted for major international prizes inclu
 ding the Dublin Literary Award, the Strega European Prize, the Kirkus Priz
 e, and the Walter Scott Prize. In 2025, he received an Honorary Doctorate 
 of Letters from the University of Limerick for his “remarkable contribut
 ions to literature” and was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by
  the French Ministry of Culture. His fiction has been translated into over
  40 languages.Rónán Hession is a writer and musician based in Dublin. Hi
 s debut novel, Leonard and Hungry Paul, was published by Bluemoose Books i
 n 2019 whereupon it was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the
  Year, the 2019 An Post Irish Book Awards, the British Book Awards, the Da
 lkey Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Priz
 e. It was first published in German by Woywod & Meurer Verlag in 2023 (Leo
 nard und Paul), and became a surprise bestseller. In 2025, it was adapted 
 into a six-part BBC series, starring Alex Lawther and narrated by Julia Ro
 berts. His latest novel is Ghost Mountain (Blessing Verlag, 2024). Literat
 ure Ireland has supported translations of Rónán’s work into many langu
 ages, including Spanish and German.Tadhg Mac Dhonnágain is a writer, musi
 cian and publisher working primarily in the Irish language. His novel, Mad
 ame Lazare, was named Irish Language Book of the Year at the 2021 An Post 
 Irish Book Awards. In 2022, Literature Ireland nominated the book for the 
 European Union Prize for Literature, where it was awarded a Special Mentio
 n. Literature Ireland has supported the translation of Madame Lazare into 
 Serbian and Estonian, and most recently in German (Kröner Verlag, 2026). 
 Mac Dhonnagáin lives in Spiddal in the Connemara Gaeltacht, an Irish-spea
 king region on the west coast of Ireland.Martin Doyle is Books Editor of T
 he Irish Times, where he has worked since 2007. He was previously Editor o
 f The Irish Post in London, and also worked at The Times in London. In 202
 3, his memoir, Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Own Place, was published by
  Merrion Press, and was subsequently shortlisted for Non-fiction Book of t
 he Year at the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards; it will soon be published i
 n Polish and Chinese. A collection of his interviews, A Hosting: Interview
 s with Irish Writers 1991-2025, is forthcoming from Lilliput Press.An even
 t presented in partnership by the Embassy of Ireland, Germany, the Centre 
 for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Literature Ire
 land 
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