Annual Lecture with Sebastian Barry, the Laureate for Irish Fiction
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Thu 9 May, 7.00pm
The Great Hall at Queen's
Lanyon Building
Queen's University Belfast
Join us for the Annual Lecture with the Laureate for Irish Fiction, Sebastian Barry.
Sebastian Barry's novels and plays have won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards Best Novel, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, to name but a few. He has had two consecutive novels, A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize.
Organiser Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University, Belfast
Organiser of Annual Lecture with Sebastian Barry, the Laureate for Irish Fiction
Since 2003 the Seamus Heaney Centre has been home to some of the UK and Ireland’s foremost poets, novelists, scriptwriters, and critics, and each year growing their worldwide network of writers and critics. Building on a literary heritage at Queen’s University Belfast that stretches back to the 1960s Belfast Group, the Centre is dedicated to excellence and innovation in creative writing and poetry criticism.
The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s hosts the International Poetry Fellow, a Children’s Writing Fellow, and three annual Fellowships from the worlds of poetry, fiction, music, film and television.
