Zlata's Diary author for Writer's Festival
Zlata Filipovic, the internationally acclaimed author of 1993's 'Zlata's Diary', will open Impressions - South Tipperary Writer's Festival in Clonmel this Friday, 15 October.
Filipovic, whose book was a chronicle of her teenage life in besieged Sarajevo, will open the Festival alongside Iraqi poet Choman Hardi on Friday night.
The Festival will continue until Sunday and writers attending include Niall Williams, Ulick O'Connor, Dermot Healy and Tony Curtis.
Dermot Healy, Clare Keegan and Eva Salzman will read on Saturday evening
Sunday sees the annual Impressions debate and this year's topic is 'Planning For Our Past or: How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Progress'.
This debate will look at the thorny issue of developing for the future whilst taking our cultural and environmental inheritance into account. Speakers featured include Eamon Ryan TD (Green Party), Michael Coady (Poet) and Sam Stephenson (Architect).
Children's author Darren Shan reads on the Sunday of the festival and the final event of the weekend on Sunday is the inaugural Laurence Sterne Lecture.
Ulick O'Connor will gives a lecture on Oliver St John Gogarty whose most famous prose book 'As I Was Going Down Sackville Street' is regarded as the modern equivalent of Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy'.
Tickets for all events are available from the South Tipperary Arts Centre, Nelson Street, Clonmel (052 27877).
