Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; PEN Heaney Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year shortlists; Writers in the Attic; Robert Fisk archive at TCD; Little Island’s Carnegie success
Vona Groarke, winner of the 2024 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction, with President of the Royal Irish Academy, Prof Pat Guiry, French ambassador to Ireland, Céline Place, and Ruaidhri Dowling from the Department of Foreign Affairs. Photograph: Johnny BamburyIn The Irish Times this Saturday, Jonathan Coe tells John Self about his latest novel, The Proof of My Innocence.
Martina Evans is one of six poets shortlisted for the inaugural PEN Heaney Prize, which recognises a single volume of poetry by one author, published in the UK or Ireland, of outstanding literary merit that engages with the impact of cultural or political events on human conditions or relationships.
‘Fran Lock’s Hyena! comes at the reader with all the feral energy of its totem animal; it’s a devouring and hallucinatory work that channels the embodied grief of the queerminded into a mirror for our age. At its deep heart’s core is a righteous and riotous engagement with working class culture’s magnificent anarchic spirit.’
Zoe Sadler, Events and Prizes Manager at English PEN, said: “The surprising, distinct, and deeply personal ways in which each of these six poets engages with the impact of cultural or political events on the human condition reflect both the expansive creative potential of this type of poetry and the judges’ thoughtful approach to their task. It’s incredibly exciting to present such an ambitious inaugural shortlist.
This first series of Writers in the Attic will feature Noel O’Regan on November 13th, Danny Denton , Jan Carson , Mary Costello and Danielle McLaughlin .Trinity College Dublin has received €200,000 in funding from the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to support the conservation of the personal archive of the renowned late journalist and Trinity graduate Robert Fisk and his wife, Nelofer Pazira-Fisk.
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