Actor and food writer Stanley Tucci, novelists Joe O'Connor, Roddy Doyle and Douglas Stuart and crime authors Jane Casey, Catherine Ryan Howard and Claire Allan will be among the featured authors at the 2023 International Literature Festival Dublin.
Stanley Tucci will be discussing his memoir Taste, while Schitt's Creek screenwriter Monica Heisey will be talking about her debut novel Really Good, Actually.
Elsewhere, author Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse will discuss her debut novel, All Your Children, Scattered, which deals with the aftermath of the 1994 genocide of the Tsutsi people in Rwanda and uncovers the disaster's aftermath on three generations of survivors.
Glórtha Aiteacha / Queer Voices will be a bi-lingual event looking at queer resilience, joy, and community; while the Irish Writers Centre will host Takin' the Mic, an evening of poetry and prose in English and Irish.
The festival runs from May 19th - 28th at Merrion Square Park.
In all over 180 events will take place including 36 aimed at families and children, with authors including Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer and Lockwood & Co creator Johnathan Stroud.
The festival is run by Dublin City Council and supported by the Arts Council.
