Knausgård Meets Bennett
Norsk Literatue Festival
31st May 2017, 6pm
Lillehammer Bibliotek, Norway
To mark the release of Pond in its Norwegian language edition Claire-Louise Bennett will be in conversation with Karl Ove Knausgård. The Stinging Fly Press published Pond, in February 2015. Since then it has also been published in the UK by Fitzcarraldo Editions and in the USA by Riverhead Books. This event is ticketed and more information can be found here.
Why Write? Susie Orbach
International Literature Festival Dublin
20th May 2017, 7pm
Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 2
This event, led by renowned writer and psychoanalyst Susie Orbach, will explore the impulse to write and the challenges writers face through the form of a psychoanalytic conversation. She will be joined by novelist and playwright, Gillian Slovo and Danielle McLaughlin, author of Dinosaurs On Other Planets, which The Stinging Fly Press published in 2015. Further information and tickets can be found here.
The Beauty of It: Paula Meehan, Ron Carey, Claire-Louise Bennett, Mary Nunan
International Literature Festival Dublin
25th May 2017, 6.30pm
Poetry Ireland, Dublin 1
Hosted by Vincent Woods, this evening event will bring together music and word from new and established voices in a series of specially curated performances. As part of the event’s line up, Claire-Louise Bennett will perform The Movement with Bealtaine 2017 Dancer in Residence Mary Nunan. This event is ticketed and they can be purchased here.