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Venetia Bowe is an actor from Dublin who plays 'Joy' in playwright Dan Colley's show 'Lost Lear'

Irish among artists taking part in Edinburgh festivals

Irish artists are among thousands from across the world who are packing their bags and heading off to Edinburgh in Scotland, for the annual internationally renowned arts festivals.

UK • 31 Jul

The 13 books on the longlist for the Booker Prize

Trinidadian-Irish writer makes Booker Prize longlist

The longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced with no Irish-born authors included this year.

Books • 29 Jul

The Billy Boys depicts four men in suits walking along a beach at sunset

Acclaimed painter Jack Vettriano found dead in France

Scottish painter Jack Vettriano has been found dead at his apartment in Nice in the south of France, his publicist has said.

World • 04 Mar

Samantha Harvey's book 'Orbital' is the second shortest Booker winner

Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize with 'Orbital'

British author Samantha Harvey has become the first woman since 2019 to win the Booker Prize.

World • 13 Nov 24

Han Kang joins a long list of literary luminaries

South Korea's Han Kang wins Nobel literature prize

South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the award-giving body said.

Books • 11 Oct 24

Elaine Feeney, based in the west of Ireland, has been nominated for her novel How to Build a Boat

Most Irish authors ever on Booker Prize longlist

Four Irish authors feature on the Booker prize 2023 longlist of 13 books.

Books • 01 Aug 23

Milan Kundera was nominated several times for the Nobel prize in literature but never won

Czech writer Milan Kundera dies at 94

Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera, who satirised totalitarian regimes and mixed dark irony with philosophical musings to explore the human condition, has died, a library he worked with has said. He was 94.

Culture • 13 Jul 23

Cormac McCarthy was one of the great US writers

US literary icon Cormac McCarthy dies at 89

Cormac McCarthy, whose violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds led to awards, movie adaptations and sleepless nights for his enthralled and appalled readers, has died at the age of 89.

Culture • 14 Jun 23

Annie Ernaux pictured at the Cannes Film Festival last May

French author Annie Ernaux wins Nobel Literature Prize

French author Annie Ernaux, known for her deceptively simple novels drawing on personal experience of class and gender, has been awarded the Nobel Literature Prize.

World • 06 Oct 22

Vespertines with Ellen Cranitch celebrates 50 years of ECM

ECM records is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. They are renowned for refusing to acknowledge boundaries between musical genres.

LyricFM • 11 Nov 19

Final deliberations took five hours, with judges repeatedly told they were not allowed to split the prize

Margaret Atwood, Bernardine Evaristo win Booker Prize

Judges have flouted the rules and split the 2019 Booker Prize between Margaret Atwood for The Testaments and Bernardine Evaristo for Girl, Woman, Other

World • 15 Oct 19

'The Testaments' is the much-anticipated sequel to Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale'

Copies of Atwood's The Testaments released early by mistake

Independent bookshops have reacted angrily after some copies of 'The Testaments', the sequel to Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' were shipped to customers in the US almost a week ahead of its official publication date.

Culture • 10 Sep 19

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