readings
upcoming readings, festivals, interviews 2008:
NOTHING CURRENTLY SCHEDULED
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june 2008
Tuesday 17th: DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO DUBLIN
Assembly Rooms, County Hall, Marine Road, Dun Laoghaire
19:30: reading as part of the DLR Library Voices series
Wednesday 11th : DUBLIN WRITERS FESTIVAL
18:00: reading with Lloyd Jones at the Project Theatre, chaired by Claire Kilroy. See festival website
Sunday 1st: LISTOWEL, CO KERRY, IRELAND
LISTOWEL WRITERS WEEK
Reading from Mutiny On The Bounty
may 2008
Friday 30th: LISTOWEL, CO KERRY, IRELAND
17:30 reading for Amnesty International - 4 authors featured in The Irish Times ongoing series of 30 Irish writers responding to the 30 articles
of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
Friday 30th: DINGLE, CO KERRY, IRELAND
12:30 - 13:30 reading at the dingle bookshop, green street, dingle, co kerry
Monday 26th - HAY-ON-WYE LITERARY FESTIVAL:
16:00 - 17:00 Reading from MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY, followed by a Q&A.
Sunday 25th - HAY-ON-WYE LITERARY FESTIVAL:
16:00 - 17:00 Presentation of scenes from the film adaptation of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS and an interview with director Mark Herman,
producer David Heyman and myself.
Monday 5th: PUBLICATION DATE FOR MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
april 2008
tue 22 apr: barcelona, spain
presentation of the qué leer award 2007
sat 19 apr: dublin castle - franco-irish literary festival
10:30-12 noon: Panel discussion "Childhood Secrets and Family Secrets", with: John Boyne, Anne Enright, Frédéric Freney, Philippe Grimbert, Evelyn Schlag and Jan Costin Wagner
13:15-13:45: Signings
16:45-18:00: Café Littéraire: presentation of latest works by John Boyne, Nicolas Fargues, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Jan Costin Wagner
thu 10 apr - 7:00 pm, hughes & hughes, dundalk, launch of one city one book promotion
fri 11 apr - 11:20 am, radio interview louth fm
march 2008
wed 19 mar - 10:20 am, radio interview country mix 106.8 fm dublin
dublin's talking: discussing the second child and the open door series of novellas
fri 14 mar - 7:00 pm, radio interview dublin south 93.9 fm
rhyme and reason
thu 13 mar - 6:00 pm, waterstone's, the jervis centre, dublin 1
launch of the open door series of novellas
thu 6 mar - 9-10 am, rte radio 1
speaking on rte radio's ryan tubridy show to discuss the shortlisted books in this year's irish book awards
sat 1 mar - booksigning
mayersche buchhandlung bookstore, schildergasse 31-37, cologne
sat 1 mar - 6:00 pm, cologne literary festival, germany
Kulturkirche Köln, Siebachstraße 85, Nippes
i read from the boy in the striped pyjamas with actor Ulrich Matthes, who reads the german audio version of the novel.
january 2008
fri 25 jan - New Delhi, India
reading alongside fellow irish writers claire kilroy and glenn patterson as part of the irish literary festival in new delhi
thu 17 jan, 8:45 a.m., radio interview (ireland) rte radio 1, morning ireland re: india trip
december 2007
sat 8 dec, 11 a.m., radio interview (ireland) phantom fm 105.2