7:00pm April 11 (Tues.), Alumni Center
This year's Gerson Irish Reader, Kevin Barry, is one of Ireland’s most internationally prominent contemporary fiction writers. His novel City of Bohane, winner of the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, was described by the New York Times as “an extraordinary first novel” exhibiting “marvels of language, invention, and surprise.” His 2015 novel Beatlebone won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize, awarded to British and Irish fiction that extends the possibilities of the novel. Beatlebone is also a nominee for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English. Barry has also published two collections of short stories and is co-editor and co-founder (with his wife, Olivia Smith) of influential annual Irish literary arts anthology, Winter Papers.
This year’s reading will commemorate Professor Louis Gerson, who died in recent months and who endowed the reading series in honor of his late wife, Elizabeth Shanley Gerson.
https://www.academia.edu/31334736/UConn_Irish_Literature_Readings_in_spring_2017
For more information, contact: Mary Burke at mary.burke@uconn.edu