Cúirt International Festival of Literature

This year, Cúirt International Festival of Literature has partnered with the Vilenica International Literary Festival (Slovenia), Druskininkai Poetic Fall, (Lithuania) and Ex Border (Italy). The project seeks to promote and showcase different literary genres and styles through a series of live readings involving a mix of writers. Cúirt will host two such readings which are free to the public. Galway City Arts Officer James C. Harrold will officially launch the series on Wednesday 13th April at 12noon, Druid Lane. All are welcome.

Read Me Live Events at Cúirt 2011:

Elaine Feeney and Goran Vojnovic, Druid Lane, Wednesday 13th April, 1pm

Elaine Feeney

Elaine Feeney was born in Galway in 1979. She studied English and History at University College Galway and completed post graduate study in University College Cork and the University of Limerick. She has been writing since her early teens. In 2006 she won the North Beach Nights Grand Slam and the 2008 Cúirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam.
She published her first chapbook in 2007, Indiscipline and published her first collection in 2010 with Salmon Publishers, Where’s Katie? Elaine has performed at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Electric Picnic. Radio One’s Arts show, ‘Arena’ recorded and aired her work this summer. Her work has been translated into Slovene. She lives in Athenry with her partner Ray, and sons, Jack and Finn.

Goran Vojnovic

Goran Vojnovic is a writer and film director, born in Ljubljana in 1980. He also works as a columnist for one of Slovenia’s biggest daily newspapers, Dnevnik. He was drawn into writing literature incidentally, when, unable to find work in the area of film, he reshaped an unfinished film script into his award -winning and best-selling first novel (Southern Scum Go Home!). His short film script Bon voyage Nedim was nominated forthe European Film Academy Award and his first feature length film Piran Pirano has won several awards and has been travelling around the world ever since. Goran lives and works in Ljubljana.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Giuseppe O. Longo, Druid Lane, Thursday 14th April, 3:30pm

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was educated at University College Cork and The University of Oxford. She is Associate Professor of English, Dean of the Faculty of Arts (Letters), and a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.She is a founder of the literary magazine Cyphers. She won the PatrickKavanagh Award for her first book, Acts and Monuments (1966), which was followed by Site of Ambush (1975), both published by the Gallery Press. In 2010 The Sun-fish was the winner of the Canadian-based International Griffin Poetry Prize.

Giuseppe O. Longo

Giuseppe O. Longo is the author of three novels and ten short story collections. For eight years he has taught a course on creative writing at the Master in Science communication of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste. He has translated many books from English and German into Italian, and is an active
science popularizer and lecturer.