Author Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin and awardwinning author and poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa will be in conversation in Kennys Bookshop in Galway City this Friday night, November 18, starting at 6pm. It’s a free event and all are welcome. The conversation will be as Gaeilge agus Béarla, suitable for people with all levels of Irish.

Tadhg’s novel, Madame Lazare, was the first Irish-language novel to ever be nominated for EU Prize for Literature award. Earlier this year, it was among 41 entries for the 2022 prize and it received special mention at the award ceremony, when along with four others it was praised for its ‘literary achievements and potential to cross borders’.

Madame Lazare tells the story of Levana, a girl of Jewish heritage whose grandmother, Hana Lazare, fled the Nazi invasion of her Northern European homeland as a child and survived. As Hana grows older, Levana finds herself on a trail from Paris to Brussels and the west coast of Ireland to discover the true story behind her grandmother’s hidden life.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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