Podcast appearances and mentions of edna o'brien

Carlo Gebler has written many novels, along with short stories, plays, memoirs, essays, reviews, biographies and works of narrative history.  As the son of the grande dame of Irish letters Edna O Brien and the writer Ernest Gebler , Carlo has  impeccable literary pedigree, as a lecturer in Trinity College Dublin he has opened the windows of wonder to a legion of students by imparting his knowledge, he discusses,À la recherche du temps perdu by Proust, as being a transformative reading experience .If the past is another country – what happens when we revisit it, one day a year? Carlo Gébler has done just that. Here is the story of Ireland – from the tail end of the Troubles to the Good Friday agreement, to the glory days of the Celtic Tiger to the recession to Brexit and on to the present, where, it appears, everything we thought we could take for granted is no longer a given. Drawing from journals he has kept for over four decades, Gébler stitches together days of his life into something bigger than his own lived experiences – a vivid patchwork history of the island over thirty-five years, capturing those sweeping changes in sharp, funny, slantwise pieces that will prompt readers to reflect on the strange process of how we got here. This intelligent and affectionate compilation, written in Gébler's sparkling prose, is a joy. Whether read from beginning to end or dipped into, it will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in the astonishing evolution of our island.

Scholl, Joachim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Scholl, Joachim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

Scholl, Joachim www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart

The 3rd awards that took place recently at Scariff Community College  to recognise writing skills with Special guest Donal Ryan. 

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Há pouco a temer, neste caso. Falamos de vício dos livros com um especialista em tratar precisamente do vício enquanto patologia. João Galamba de Almeida é psicanalista, leitor compulsivo a partir dos 40 anos, quando acho que era tempo de ler os grandes livros. Começou cheio de disciplina até que criar uma rede de leituras que leva à perdição. Para esta conversa, convidou a escritora e tradutora Maria Manuel Viana. Eles falam dos grandes temas literários: o mal, o amor, a morte. Tudo, acompanhado a chá e com recomendações: Na Floresta, de Edna O’Brien, A Marcha de Radeztky, de Joseph Roth, Fédon, de Platão, Auto da Fé, de Elias Canetti, A Curva da Estrada, de Ferreira de Castro, A Nossa Parte da Noite, de Mariana Enriquez, O Infinito no Junco, de Irene Vallejo.

The Nobel Prize winning author of 'The Remains of the Day' and 'Never Let me Go', Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new book 'Klara and the Sun', A Smyth's debut album is Last Animals, This Sunday, March 7, Irish author Edna O’Brien will be conferred with France’s highest cultural accolade, The Order of Arts and Letters.

The Nobel Prize winning author of 'The Remains of the Day' and 'Never Let me Go', Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new book 'Klara and the Sun', A Smyth's debut album is Last Animals, This Sunday, March 7, Irish author Edna O’Brien will be conferred with France’s highest cultural accolade, The Order of Arts and Letters.

The Lonely Voice with Peter Orner discusses Edna O’Brien's short story “The Love Object.” O’Brien is an award-winning Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and writer of short stories.

Book Public host Yvette Benavides and Peter Orner discuss "The Doll" by Edna O'Brien.

Renowned Irish novelist Edna O’Brien turns 90 today.  She joined Pat ahead of her delivering the TS Eliot lecture, streaming live from the Abbey Theatre YouTube channel this evening at 7.30pm. Listen and subscribe to The Pat Kenny Show on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.      Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.     You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

Jonathan Lethem; Sylvia Townsend Warner; Edna O'Brien

Ihr Debütroman wurde 1960 in Irland öffentlich verbrannt. Zu skandalös wirkte damals ihre literarische Erkundung weiblicher Sexualität. Edna O'Brien, inzwischen eine der wichtigsten irischen Autorinnen, wird am 15. Dezember 90 Jahre alt. Von Thomas David www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Zeitfragen Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2YMLK23 It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue eyes were those of a Norseman. He was twenty-two, and she, Nora Barnacle, was twenty and employed as a chambermaid in Finn's Hotel. They agreed to meet on June 14th, outside No. 1 Merrion Square, the home of Sir William Wilde, but Nora did not turn up. After a dejected letter from Joyce they met on June 16th, a date which came to be immortalized in literature as Bloomsday. Edna O'Brien paints a miniature portrait of an artist, idealist, insurgent and filled with a secret loneliness. In Nora, he was to find accomplice, collaborator and muse. For all their sexual escalations, Joyce considered their relationship 'a kind of sacrament'. Their life was one of wandering, emotional upheaval and poverty. It was also one that was binding and mysterious, and defied all the mores of intimacy. In prose brimming with life and energy, Edna O'Brien resurrects a relationship of magnificent intensity on the page, and in doing so shows herself to be touched by the genius of the writer she loves above all others.

James Joyce’s Ulysses is considered one of the most important works of modernist literature. It is both celebrated and commemorated annually on the 16th June – Bloomsday – the day on which the novel is set. The traditional celebrations held in Dublin since the 1950s have been curtailed this year because of COVID-19, but Andrew Marr discusses the legacy of Joyce with the writers Edna O'Brien, Colm Tóibín and Mary Costello. Edna O’Brien first encountered Joyce’s work in the 1950s, and his writings of ‘the rough and tumble of everyday life’ spurred her extraordinary writing career. She has written a biography of Joyce, and her portrait of his marriage, James and Nora, has just been reissued. Colm Tóibín encounters the spirit of Joyce and his creation, Leopold Bloom, constantly as he walks the streets of Dublin. In his collection of essays, Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, he looks at Joyce in relation to the writer's father. Mary Costello is a self-confessed Joyce obsessive. In her latest novel, The River Capture, she pays homage to Ulysses. Producer: Katy Hickman

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2UuSf8d Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of Nora Barnacle, their hectic sexuality, children, wanderings, debt and profligacy, and Joyce's obsession with the city of Dublin, which he would re-render through his words. Nor does Edna O'Brien spare us the anger and isolation of Joyce's later years, when he felt that the world had turned its back on him, and she asks how could it be otherwise for a man who knew that conflict is the source of all creation. 'A delight from start to finish . . . achieves the near impossibility of giving a thoroughly fresh view of Joyce' Sunday Times 'As skilful, stylish and pacy as one would expect from so adept a novelist' Sunday Telegraph 'Accessible and passionate, it is a book which should bring Joyce in all his glory and agony to a new and very wide audience' Irish Independent

Autor: Lieske, Tanya Sendung: Büchermarkt Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14

In dieser Folge mit Robin, Meike & Anika: „Mein Jahr der Ruhe und Entspannung“ von Ottessa Moshfegh, „Friday Black“ von Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah und „Das Mädchen“ von Edna O'Brien. Bevor Euch Eure Podcast-Crew ihre Hot Takes zu drei Büchern um die Ohren haut, wird erst mal aus dem Nähkästchen geplaudert: Momentan gibt es jeden Sonntag ein Interview mit einem Büchermenschen, der es durch die härteste Tür im Literatur-Business – also unsere – geschafft hat.

Frequent listeners of the podcast will know that we’re both big audiobook listeners, and we’re sharing some of our favorite narrators and the books that represent their work. As always, we’ll end with what we’re reading this week. Books and other media mentioned in this episode: Audie AwardsThe Turn of the Screw by Henry James, narrated by Emma ThompsonAuthorized: Love and Romance (podcast)Reese Witherspoon filmographyJim Dale audiobooksHarry Potter series by J.K. Rowling Ann’s pick: Rosalyn Landor– The Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm) Juliet Stevenson– Juliet Stevenson filmography– Emma (film)– The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– Belgravia by Julian Fellowes (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich Katherine Kellgren– My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm) Halle’s pick: January LaVoy– The Diviners by Libba Bray (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– The Diviners series by Libba Bray Bahni Turpin– The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm) Rebecca Lowman– Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm) What We’re Reading This Week: Ann: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black– Caitlin Kelly audiobooks Halle: The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– Animal Farm by George Orwell (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm)– Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate (buy from Bookshop; buy from Libro.fm) Well-Read on FacebookWell-Read on TwitterWell-Read on Bookshop

Parliamo di una parola tristemente familiare in questo momento: isolamento. Ma al di là del presente cosa ha significato questo concetto nella storia e nella cultura delle donne. In che modo siamo state e siamo isolate nella società in cui viviamo. Dentro troverete Edna O’Brien, Biancaneve, Naomi Klein, Happy Days, Virginia Woolf e molto altro. Buon Ascolto!

The Porpoise, Haddon's latest novel is now out in paperback. Anne McElvoy talks to him about the language of bloke, writing female characters and taking inspiration from Shakespeare and the legend of Pericles. The conversation ranges across his career in theatre, children's writing and stories for adults, the impact of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time which he published in 2003 and his recent illness. Recorded in front of an audience as part of the BBC Proms Plus series of discussions. You can find a playlist of In Depth Conversations on the Free Thinking website with guests including James Ellroy, Edna O'Brien, Sebastian Faulks, Margaret Atwood, Elif Shafak, Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Hanif Kureishi and others. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ly0c8 Producer: Fiona McLean.

Kim Chakanetsa for an hour of conversation with the acclaimed authors Isabel Allende and Edna O’Brien. Isabel talks about finding love in her 70s and how she is coping with isolation and Covid-19. Edna, now 89, talks about her latest Novel, Girl, which took her to Nigeria - and she too discusses dealing with loneliness and the power of literature in the midst of crisis.

durée : 00:58:44 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Marie Richeux - Son dernier livre "Girl" donne voix à une jeune fille enlevée, séquestrée et violentée par les djihadistes de Boko Haram au Nigéria. Entretien exclusif à Londres avec celle qui vient d'obtenir un prix Femina spécial pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre. - réalisation : Lise-Marie Barré, Charlotte Roux - invités : Edna O'Brien écrivain

durée : 00:58:44 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Marie Richeux - Son dernier livre "Girl" donne voix à une jeune fille enlevée, séquestrée et violentée par les djihadistes de Boko Haram au Nigéria. Entretien exclusif à Londres avec celle qui vient d'obtenir un prix Femina spécial pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre. - réalisation : Lise-Marie Barré, Charlotte Roux - invités : Edna O'Brien écrivain

Dame Margaret Drabble joins us at the Slightly Foxed table as we celebrate her life in writing. From taking up her pen in the 1960s as a young mother alone in her kitchen to feeling part of a movement with Nell Dunn, Margaret Forster and Edna O’Brien, to editing The Oxford Companion to English Literature without the help of a computer and eschewing the Booker Prize, Margaret Drabble sees writing as both an illness and a trade, finding black humour in ageing and joy in jigsaw puzzles along the way. And we uncover whatever happened to the elusive novelist Elizabeth Jenkins in this month’s reading from the magazine’s archives. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 44 minutes; 23 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch (mailto:anna@foxedquarterly.com) with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. Margaret Drabble Books Mentioned Out of print - A Summer Bird-Cage (5:41) - Arnold Bennett: A Biography (8:58) - Angus Wilson: A Biography (9:54) - The Oxford Companion to English Literature, (ed.) Fifth & Sixth editions (11:13) - The Radiant Way (15:20) - A Natural Curiosity (15:20) In print - The Millstone (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/margaret-drabble-the-millstone/) (14:10) - The Needle’s Eye (https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/The-Needles-Eye/9780156029353) (17:37) - The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/margaret-drabble-the-pattern-in-the-carpet/) NB Published 7 May 2020 (21:35) - The Dark Flood Rises (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/margaret-drabble-the-dark-flood-rises/) (36:48) Other Books - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, Angus Wilson is out of print (10:28) - The Tortoise and the Hare (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/elizabeth-jenkins-tortoise-and-the-hare/) and Harriet (http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/harriet.html) , Elizabeth Jenkins (28:17) - The Custom of the Country (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/edith-wharton-the-custom-of-the-country/) , Edith Wharton (39:08) - The Unwomanly Face of War (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/svetlana-alexievich-unwomanly-face-of-war/) , Svetlana Alexievich (40:26) - To War with Whitaker (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/to-war-with-whitaker-hermione-countess-of-ranfurly/) , Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly: Slightly Foxed Edition No. 50 (41:55) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Jenkins? (https://foxedquarterly.com/elizabeth-jenkins-virago-hare-and-tortoise-literary-review/) , Nigel Andrew on the novels of Elizabeth Jenkins in Issue 60 (28:17) - Joyce to the Life (https://foxedquarterly.com/margaret-drabble-james-joyce-literary-review/) , Margaret Drabble on Richard Ellman, James Joyce in Issue 49 - Trollope’s Ireland (https://foxedquarterly.com/margaret-drabble-anthony-trollope/) , Margaret Drabble on the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope in Issue 59 Other Links - The winner of The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019 (https://foxedquarterly.com/jonathan-phillips-wins-for-the-life-and-legend-of-the-sultan-saladin) : Jonathan Phillips for The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jonathan-phillips-the-life-and-legend-of-the-sultan-saladin/) (1:00) - The Full Digital Archive of Slightly Foxed (https://foxedquarterly.com/subscriber-benefits-digital-edition/) (26:23) - An Index to Slightly Foxed (https://foxedquarterly.com/an-index-to-slightly-foxed/all/) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Vous êtes maintenant déjà habitué(e)s à ce nouveau format d’émission ! Merci pour votre fidélité ! Nous voilà donc reparties avec un livre et un coup de coeur ! A l’affiche : Girl d’Edna O’Brien, chez Sabine Wespieser. Traduction Aude de Saint-Loup et Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat Avec le coup de coeur d’Eva : A mains nues d’Amandine Dhée aux Editions de la Contre Allée On vous souhaite d’excellentes lectures et n’hésitez pas à nous donner vos retours sur les réseaux sociaux, à nous noter sur les plateformes de podcast et à nous soutenir sur tipeee !

Emmanuelle Devos est la onzième invitée du podcast Le Goût de M proposé par « M Le magazine du Monde ». La comédienne, au générique du podcast Le Nuage et bientôt à l'affiche du film Les Parfums reçoit la journaliste et productrice Géraldine Sarratia dans sa maison de Fontenay-sous-Bois (Val-de-Marne). Emmanuelle Devos y évoque son enfance dans le 7e arrondissement à Paris ; le goût de ses parents pour la musique (Mozart, Bob Dylan, Brel, Brassens, Dire Straits…) et les vieux films des années quarante aux années soixante ; sa passion très jeune pour la littérature, anglaise notamment ; son admiration pour les écrivaines Jane Austen, Edna O'Brien, Nuala O'Faolain, la langue de Marivaux, le son garage et les Rita Mitsouko ou encore la comédienne Nastassja Kinski ; sa fascination pour l'élégance de Sandrine Kiberlain et Chiara Mastroianni ; sa fatigue des fringues ; sa décoration intérieure de plus en plus marquée par l'enfance ; ses discussion culturelles avec Arnaud Desplechin ou Jacques Audiard ; son implication dans le cinéma français des années 1990 et l'absence de calcul dans ses choix de rôles.Toutes les deux semaines, une personnalité issue du monde de la culture, de la mode, du design ou de la cuisine racontera son histoire personnelle du goût. Mais aussi ses dégoûts. Comment elle s'est façonné un art de vivre, en continuité ou au contraire en rupture avec son milieu d'origine. Comment celui-ci a évolué au cours de sa vie, de ses rencontres, de ses expériences.Un podcast produit par Géraldine Sarratia (Genre idéal)Réalisation : Sulivan ClabautMusique : Gotan Project Retrouvez tous les podcasts du Monde sur https://www.lemonde.fr/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

I’m Jim McKeown , welcome to Likely Stories, a weekly review of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and biographies Josephine Edna O'Brien was born December 15, 1930. She is an Irish novelist playwright, poet, and short-story writer. The President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation." She has penned more than 25 works of fiction. Her stories are heartfelt, poignant, and breathtaking.

Having to leave a child's bedside when they're being cared for in hospital can be a huge wrench. To help reduce the separation anxiety, a third of neonatal units in the UK are now using an app that helps parents stay in touch with their premature babies 24 hours a day. Doctors and nurses can send photos and video updates to parents when they can't be with their baby in hospital. So far, around five thousand families have used the service. Emma Barnett talks to Katharine Da Costa - a reporter for BBC South and Consultant Obstetrician Dr Maggie Blott. This year saw an unprecedented number of women winning major awards and prizes. What does being a winner feel like, and is it always good to win? Jenni Murray hears from the writer Edna O'Brien who won the David Cohen Prize for Literature. The award celebrates a writer who has broken down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond, and moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing. Christmas is steeped in all sorts of tradition – but it’s not just trees, tinsel and turkey. Many families have their own festive rituals and the mere idea of doing things differently would make it feel… well, just not like Christmas. But why do we get so hung up on doing Christmas a certain way - even if it doesn't make us happy? What is it about human psychology that makes tradition so attractive? And if your family festivities make you want to run away and hide, what’s the best way to break the cycle? Jenni Murray talks to Dr Cristine Legare from the University of Texas at Austin about why rituals are an inevitable part of being human. We mark the centenary of women being able to enter the legal profession. Andrea Catherwood speaks to Cherie Booth QC, Dana Denis-Smith - founder of the First 100 years, Abi Silver, a former associate at a city law firm and now a legal consultant, Beth Collette, who's a barrister in her second year of tenancy, and Mari Takayanagi - a Senior Archivist at the Houses of Parliament. The actress and writer Joanna Scanlan is known for Thick of It, Getting On, No Offence Puppy Love and most recently The Accident. Her latest role is as Mother Superior in the BBC’s new adaptation of Dracula. She joins Jenni to discuss. Plus, the Glasgow-based close harmony quartet The All Sorts perform.

This year saw an unprecedented number of women winning major awards and prizes. What does being a winner feel like, and is it always good to win? Jenni Murray hears from the writer Edna O'Brien who won the David Cohen Prize for Literature. The award celebrates a writer who has broken down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond, and moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing. She also hears from Khadijah Mellah who won the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood, and is the Sunday Times Young Sportswoman of the Year; Natasha Benjamin who won the Lorraine Inspirational Woman of the Year Award for her work supporting children affected by domestic violence; the educator and disability activist Sinead Burke who has achondroplasia and is on the BBC 100 Women list as one of most inspiring and influential women in the world; and Laura Smith who won this year’s Funny Women Stage Award. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Dianne McGregor

Prêt·e·s à se remémorer le best et le worst de cette année 2019 avec toute l’équipe au complet ? C’est parti !Références entendues dans l’épisode : Kiyémis, A nos humanités révoltées, Métagraphe, 2018Retrouvez tous les épisodes de Du Côté de chez Sam iciLa revue érotique L’imparfaiteLes Journalopes est un collectif de journalistes indépendantesStarhawk est une figure altermondialiste et féministeL’article de Clémentine Gallot sur Slate.frMaman, j’ai raté l’avion (1990) est un film de Chris ColumbusKate Tempest est une rappeuse, poétesse et écrivaine britanniqueEmma Becker, La Maison, Flammarion, 2019 Ronan Farrow, Les faire taire, Calmann-Lévy, 2019SCH est un rappeur françaisDinos est un rappeur français“Pookie”de Aya Nakamura Un violador en tu camino du collectif LasTesisAngèle est une autrice compositrice et interprète belge Pomme est une autrice compositrice et interprète françaiseYseult est une autrice compositrice et interprète française"Can't Hold Me" de Emily KingNousToutes est un collectif féministeAdèle Haenel est une actrice françaiseWork in Progress (2019) est une série de Abby McEnany et Tim MasonPatrick Balkany est un homme politique françaisPortrait de la jeune fille en feu est un film de Céline Sciamma (2019)Le Festival des Merveilles est un festival trans et intersexeOcéan est un comédien et réalisateur françaisGreta Thunberg est une militante écologiste suédoise Phoebe Waller Bridge est une actrice réalisatrice et scénariste anglaiseValentine Monnier est une photographe française Roman Polanski est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur franco-polonais. Il fait l’objet de plusieurs accusations de viols et de violences sexuellesChristophe Ruggia est un réalisateur français récemment accusé de harcèlement sexuel par Adèle Haenel lors du tournage du film Les Diables (2002)Denis Baupin est un ancien député faisant l’objet d’accusations d’agression et de harcèlement sexuels Unbelievable (2019) est une série de Susannah Grant, vous pouvez retrouver l’épisode Quoi De Meuf consacré à la série iciGrâce à Dieu (2018) est un film de François Ozon Les Misérables (2019) est un film de Ladj LyFleabag (2016) est une série créée par Phoebe Waller BridgeLizzo est une artiste américaine Atlantique (2019) est un film de Mati DiopAssa Traoré a fondé le collectif La Vérité Pour Adama Boris Johnson est le chef du Parti conservateur britanniqueZineb Redouane est morte des violences policières en décembre 2018Sihame Assbague est une militante antiraciste françaiseGrégory est une série documentaire disponible sur NetflixPaye Ta Shneck était un projet luttant contre le harcèlement dans l’espace publicMadame Tounkara est une syndicaliste CGTDelphine Bauer est la fondatrice du collectif Ras la PlumeBad Bitches Only est un jeu de société féministeOlga Tokarczuk est une écrivaine polonaise, Prix Nobel de littérature 2018 Edna O’Brien, Girl, Sabine Wespieser Editions, 2019Christophe Nicolas et Anouk Ricard, Princesse Caca, Les fourmis rouges, 2017 Nastassja Martin, Croire aux fauves, Gallimard, coll. Verticales, 2019Joann Sfar, Hawaï ! , Gallimard-loisirs, 2019Ingrid Seyman, La petite conformiste, Philippe Rey, 2019 “Traum und Existenz” de KompromatChristiane Taubira, Nuit d’épine, Editions Plon, 2019Clit Revolution, manuel d’activisme féministeJustine Brabant et Leila Minano, Mauvaise troupe, Les Arènes, 2019Marie Laguerre et Laurène Daycard, Rebellez-vous !, L’Iconoclaste, 2019Clarence Edgar-Rosa et Suzie Q, Connais-toi toi-même, La Musardine, 2019Victoire Tuaillon, Les Couilles sur la table, 2019Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism, 2019James Baldwin, L’homme qui meurtL’Association des Journalistes LGBTIL’imposture, seule en scène marionnettique de LuluknetNkali est une agence d’empowerment fondée par Marie DasylvaQuoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes. Cet épisode est conçu par Clémentine Gallot et présenté avec Kiyémis, Kaoutar Harchi, Pauline Verduzier, Anne-Laure Pineau. Monté et mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Prise de son Studio Pennylane. Coordination Ashley Tola.

From Lizzo and Fleabag to Greta Thunberg and the Impossible Burger, Lilah and Gris look back at the biggest themes, people and moments of the year. How did we go from talking about 'global warming' to the 'climate crisis'? How has technology opened up the generational divide? And how is culture reflecting the changing conversation around gender, race and representation? Plus: we asked our FT colleagues for their stand-out moments of 2019! Melissa Ingabire takes on the surprising ascendance of country music, via Lil Nas X and Kacey Musgraves. Alec Russell describes meeting the 89-year-old Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. Jo Ellison explains why Karl Lagerfeld's death marked the end of an era in fashion. And Anna Nicolaou argues that 2019 was a great year for movies - thanks, in part, to streaming platforms like Netflix. The episode rounds out with listener recommendations to help you with your holiday gift list.We're taking a short break -- we'll be back in late January 2020! Let us know who we should interview and which subjects we should tackle in our second season. You can get in touch on Twitter @FTCultureCall or by email at culturecall@ft.com. And if you like the show, the kindest gift you could give us is a review on Apple Podcasts.Links from the episode, arranged by theme: Gris's Lunch with the FT with superstar violinist Nicola Benedetti (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/33ed2b6e-1b3e-11ea-97df-cc63de1d73f4Climate: Greta Thunberg has Lunch with the FT: https://www.ft.com/content/4df1b9e6-34fb-11e9-bd3a-8b2a211d90d5Why renting your wardrobe makes fashion sense: https://www.ft.com/content/f8b1b96c-ffb7-11e9-be59-e49b2a136b8dReview of Eco-Visionaries exhibition at the Royal Academy (paywall): https://www.ft.com/content/25e8d842-1684-11ea-9ee4-11f260415385Technology: Anna Nicolaou on TikTok and how video shaped a generation: https://www.ft.com/content/dd7234e8-fcb9-11e9-98fd-4d6c20050229John Thornhill's review of Shoshana Zuboff's book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: https://www.ft.com/content/43980f9c-0f5b-11e9-a3aa-118c761d2745Review of Euphoria on HBO: https://www.ft.com/content/bed942be-b2aa-11e9-bec9-fdcab53d6959MeToo and female creators: Rebecca Traister on the toll of MeToo: https://www.thecut.com/2019/09/the-toll-of-me-too.htmlGillian Tett's review of She Said, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's account of breaking the Weinstein story: https://www.ft.com/content/02b579fc-d480-11e9-a0bd-ab8ec6435630Review of Fleabag series two on BBC/Amazon... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Autrice du best-seller Bondrée, qui a remporté le prix SNCF du polar, Andrée A. Michaud revient en force avec un nouveau livre très attendu par ses lecteurs, Tempêtes; Lauréate du prix Fémina 2019 pour l'ensemble de son œuvre, Edna O'Brien a chaviré le club de lecture avec son bouleversant Girl.

durée : 00:58:47 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Marie Richeux - Son dernier livre "Girl" donne voix à une jeune fille enlevée, séquestrée et violentée par les djihadistes de Boko Haram au Nigéria. Entretien exclusif à Londres avec celle qui vient d'obtenir un prix Femina spécial pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre. - réalisation : Lise-Marie Barré, Charlotte Roux - invités : Edna O'Brien écrivain

durée : 00:58:47 - Par les temps qui courent - par : Marie Richeux - Son dernier livre "Girl" donne voix à une jeune fille enlevée, séquestrée et violentée par les djihadistes de Boko Haram au Nigéria. Entretien exclusif à Londres avec celle qui vient d'obtenir un prix Femina spécial pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre. - réalisation : Lise-Marie Barré, Charlotte Roux - invités : Edna O'Brien écrivain

Les mensuelles - Un monde de livres – émission présentée par Josyane Savigneau qui reçoit trois éditrices : Nathalie Zberro de Rivages, Sabine Wespieser et Raphaëlle Liebaert de Stock À propos du livre : "Les altruistes" Paru aux éditions Rivages Les Alter forment une famille presque comme les autres : névrosée, aimante, empêtrée dans ses contradictions. Arthur, Francine et leurs enfants - Ethan et Maggie - sont les héros de cette saga qui élève la comédie au rang d'art. Sous les coups de griffes, le roman interroge la notion de bien à notre époque, et prend le pouls de la nature humaine : qu'est-ce qui fait une vie ? Quand peut-on dire qu'on a réussi la sienne ? Comment survivre aux désillusions, au couple, à la mort d'une mère adorée, aux repas qui s'éternisent ou à une bar-mitsva ? Andrew Ridker répond à toutes ces questions et plus encore dans ce portrait attachant d'un clan qui nous ressemble, au coeur d'une Amérique vacillante mais irrésistible. Héritier d'écrivains tels que Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides ou Philip Roth, Ridker s'impose comme un auteur à suivre, à tout juste vingt-huit ans. Andrew Ridker a écrit pour divers revues et journaux avant de publier son premier roman. Sorti au printemps 2019 aux Etats-Unis, Les Altruistes a reçu un accueil triomphal. Il est en cours de traduction dans dix-sept pays. À propos du livre : "Girl" Paru aux éditions sabine Wespieser Née en 1930 dans un petit village catholique de l'ouest de l'Irlande, Edna O'Brien grandit dans une ferme isolée entre une mère sévère et un père alcoolique. Après le pensionnat, elle part à Dublin pour suivre des études en pharmacie. En 1952, elle épouse, contre l'avis de sa mère, l'écrivain juif d'origine tchèque Ernest Gébler, et s'installe à Londres. Ses débuts littéraires datent de 1960, année de la parution du premier volet de la trilogie qui la rendit célèbre, The Country Girls Trilogy. Ses premiers livres, publiés en Angleterre, ont longtemps été interdits en Irlande, parce qu'ils décrivaient de manière supposément subversive l'éveil à la sensualité de ces " filles de la campagne ". Bientôt divorcée, Edna O'Brien élève seule ses deux fils, au coeur des Swinging Sixties londoniennes, sans pourtant jamais quitter sa table de travail. Elle écrit depuis près de soixante ans, et son oeuvre est publiée dans le monde entier. Lauréate en 2018 du prix P EN America/Nabokov pour la portée internationale de son oeuvre, elle a été anoblie par Elisabeth II. Depuis près de dix ans que Sabine Wespieser éditeur publie son oeuvre, Edna O'Brien a écrit cinq nouveaux livres : Crépuscule irlandais (roman, 2010) ; Saints et Pécheurs (nouvelles, 2012) ; Fille de la campagne (mémoires, 2013) ; Les Petites Chaises rouges (roman, 2016) et Girl (roman, 2019), dont l'édition française paraît simultanément avec l'édition originale chez Faber, et dont les droits ont déjà été cédés en Allemagne, en Italie, en Espagne, aux Pays-Bas, en Grèce et en Suède. À propos du livre : "L'ami " Paru aux éditions Stock « - Je vais te dire pourquoi j’ai tenu à te parler. À ces mots, pour une raison mystérieuse, mon coeur se met à battre dans ma poitrine. - C’est au sujet du chien. - Du chien ? - Oui, je voulais savoir si tu serais d’accord pour le prendre. » Quand l’Épouse Numéro Trois de son meilleur ami récemment décédé lui fait cette demande, la narratrice a toutes les raisons de refuser. Elle préfère les chats, son appartement new-yorkais est minuscule et surtout, son bail le lui interdit. Pourtant, elle accepte. La cohabitation avec Apollon, grand danois vieillissant de la taille d’un poney, et cette écrivaine, professeure à l’université, s’annonce riche en surprises. Magnifique exploration de l’amitié, du deuil, de la littérature et du lien qui nous unit aux animaux, L’Ami est un texte unique en son genre. Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Mathilde Bach Née en 1951 à New York, Sigrid Nunez est l’auteure de sept romans et d’une biographie, Sempre Susan : Souvenirs sur Sontag (13e note éditions, 2012). Son dernier roman, L’Ami, lauréat du National Book Award en 2018, est en cours de traduction dans vingt pays.

A Front Row for Bank Holiday Monday: Kirsty Lang interviews the writer Edna O'Brien about her new novel, her first novel and her career in between, spanning almost sixty years, 25 works of fiction, as well as biographies and plays. Radio 4 is now broadcasting an adaptation of The Country Girls trilogy. Edna O'Brien's stories of Kate and Baba as they leave rural Ireland for Dublin then London, find work, meet men, and have sex caused scandal when they were published in the 1960s. Her books were banned (six times) and publicly burned in her hometown. Now these are considered among the most significant novels of the last century, important for their exploration of the experience of women and for furthering the cause of their liberation. Times change and now, O'Brien tells Kirsty Lang, she has received, from the president, Ireland's highest cultural accolade. Edna O'Brien is in her late eighties yet research for her new novel, Girl, took her to difficult, dangerous territory in Nigeria. Reading a report about a girl found with her baby wandering in the forest without food, she felt compelled to write their story so set out to find out about the schoolgirls abducted by Bokko Haram. She tells Kirsty how she visited camps, interviewed young women who had been kidnapped, raped and enslaved. She distilled this material into the story of Maryam. It is harrowing, redemptive and beautifully written. Edna O'Brien speaks about the relationship between her own life and her writing and how she has found the courage to move beyond the autobiographical in her fiction. Her ambition, she tells Kirsty, is to carry on, to write one more novel. But that, too, will involve a perilous journey. Presenter: Kirsty Lang Reader: Shalifa Kaddu Producer: Julian May

Somaliland’s first midwife, first Foreign Minister and former First Lady, Edna Adan Ismail tells us what galvanised her campaign to end the practice of FGM and why now in her 80s she still works at the hospital she helped to build in her homeland. We discuss the rise and fall of the bonkbuster with the author Lauren Milne Henderson, Maisie Lawrence editor at Bookouture and Sareeta Domingo editor at Mills and Boon. The Composer Errollyn Wallen’s work stretches back four decades, she tells us about her latest work with the BBC Proms. A new orchestral work titled This Frame is Part of the Painting. We talk about the impact of The Country Girls by the Irish author Edna O’Brien. It was banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burned publically in her hometown when it was first published. We hear from Lin Coghlan who has adapted it for radio and from the literary critic Alex Clark. How should you talk about the subject of race and racism to your children? Behavioural Scientist Dr Pragya Agarwal and blogger Freddie Harrel tell us about their personal experiences. We discuss the latest show from Zoo Nation Youth Tales of the Turntables with dancer Portia Oti and Director and Choreographer Carrie-Anne Ingrouille. Presented by Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Lucinda Montefiore

The Country Girls by the Irish author Edna O’ Brien was banned by the Irish Censorship Board and burn publically in her hometown when it was first published in the 1960’s. This story of female friendship and the restrictions of rural Irish life for women became a best seller and the first of a trilogy now recognised as an iconic work of twentieth century Irish fiction. BBC Radio 4 is dramatizing all three books and Jenni speaks to Lin Coghlan who has adapted it for radio and the literary critic Alex Clark about the impact of the trilogy and why the description of female friendship and female experience feels contemporary even 50 years after the books were published. For the last two years hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have left their homes in Myanmar and made a perilous journey to refugee camps in Bangladesh. They’re Rohingya Muslims. They have their own language and culture but the government of Myanmar, a Buddhist country, refuses to recognize them. The first exodus began two years ago when Rohingya villages where burned down and civilians, including children under 5, were attacked and killed. But even though some of them have made it to refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh, it can still be risky, especially for teenage girls. Karen Reidy is from UNICEF and joins us from Cox’s Bazaar, the world’s largest refugee camp. Stories of lives changed by youth work in our series “Off The Rails”. We’re talking to young people in danger of getting into trouble and to those who help them back from the brink. Nequela, who is now a senior youth worker sees her teenage self in the young people she works with. Jo Morris joined her as she talked with teenager Shenique who has been working with ‘Nix’, as she calls Nequela, after repeatedly getting into fights. Zoo Nation dance company are celebrated for their narrative hip hop dance productions. Their younger company Zoo Nation Youth now has a new show, Tales of the Turntable, which features some of the best young dancers and looks at the early origins of hip-hop, funk and soul, disco, house and rap. Jenni is joined by director and choreographer Carrie-Anne Ingrouille and by dancer Portia Oti. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Helen Fitzhenry

Author Carlo Gébler, son of award-winning Irish writer Edna O’Brien, spent three decades teaching creative writing within the Northern Ireland prison system. Carlo was told that his job was not to teach, but to be a human being. Returning to Magilligan Prison, Carlo asks if he made any real difference to the prisoners he taught (2019)

Around the Parishes 1st June 2019 - Killaloe This week, Killaloe Correspondent John Grimes talks about things happening in Killaloe including the Killaloe Music Festival ongoing over the bank holiday weekend. Also -Killaloe Ballina Historical recently had talks on Edna O’Brien and the show band era. 

News Saturday 25th May 2019 compiled and read by Ursula Hogan Interview Highlights include 08.24 Scariff town teams  Launch of Scariff Draft community project. Interviews by Marie McNamara with Doreen Graham and Peader Casey 19.45 Arlene White of Killaloe / Ballina local Historical society   talks about a forthcoming  lecture by Dr Dan O’Brien from UCD who is giving a talk on local  Tuamgraney author Edna O’Brien at 7.30pm on Wednesday 29th May 2019 at the Lakeside Hotel Killaloe   

For this episode Holly Dunn interviews Sarahmay Wilkinson, Associate Art Director at W. W. Norton. They discuss some of Wilkinson's book cover designs, including the fascinating backstory to her design of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls. Also talked about is Wilkinson's journey into publishing after having first established herself as a designer in the beauty industry. You can find more of Wilkinson's work at www.sarahmaywilkinson.com, or find her social media links in the show notes on our website. For more interviews with publishing industry creatives, visit www.spinemagazine.co. Music: Sweet Berry Wine, Blue Wednesday.

Actors Grace Collender and Lola Petticrew talk with Lisa Farrelly about stepping into the shoes of The Country Girls, giving heart and colour to their art and the terms & conditions of friendship. The Country Girls: Written & adapted by Edna O'Brien plays on the Abbey Stage until 6 April and gallivants on to Cork Opera House,Town Hall Theatre, Galway and Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick until 4 May 2019. The Country Girls is the Dublin: One City, One Book 2019 Choice. Recorded on Thursday 14 March 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Conall Coleman 04/2019 Broadcast 22/03/2019

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Music from the Abbey Theatre production of The Country Girls, written and adapted by Edna O'Brien, directed by Graham McLaren. Composed by Ray Harman with Sound Design by Matt Padden.

Award winning designer Francis O'Connor talks with Lisa Farrelly about the vivid neutrality and clarity of vision that textures his work on The Country Girls. The Country Girls: Written & adapted by Edna O'Brien plays on the Abbey Stage until 6 April touring to Cork Opera House, Town Hall Theatre, Galway and Lime Tree Theatre, Limerick until 4 May 2019. The Country Girls is the Dublin: One City, One Book 2019 Choice. Recorded on Wednesday 27 February 2019 at the Abbey Theatre. Interviewer & Editor: Lisa Farrelly Sound operator: Derek Conaghy 03/2019 Broadcast 01/03/2019

It’s the birthday of writer Edna O’Brien (1930), one of a select number of Irish artists who have been bestowed the honor of Saoi.

The golden age of Irish censorship ended in 1967 when Brian Lenihan Sr introduced a time limit on certain banning orders, leading to thousands of forbidden texts becoming available. Since 1929, a wealth of modern literature and medical writing had been denied to the public by a censorship board which was not required to explain its decisions - Edna O'Brien, Brendan Behan, Aldous Huxley and many others ran afoul of its high hand. However, during this period a wealth of Irish language literature and drama was being produced which slid under the censors' radar, material which still packs a punch today to audiences who feel misled by the notoriety of Lady Chatterley and Holden Caulfield. One such work is the play "An Triail" by Máiréad Ní Ghráda, first produced in 1964 and dealing with topics like religious hypocrisy, abortion, suicide and Magdalen Laundries - all in an Ireland where Disney's Fantasia was banned. In this week's episode, Darach, Peadar and Gearóidín discuss the impact of Ní Ghráda's great work and its relevance today. Darach remembers a less resonant text he studied for his reading, unlocking a wave of '90s memories and Gearóidín reflects on the similarities between the schoolmaster Pádraig and the f*ckboys of 2018. This episode deals with mature themes and contains some explicit language --- Contact the show at https://twitter.com/motherfocloir or email us at motherfocloir@headstuff.org.

Our Book Clubbers Irish Times journalists Bernice Harrison and Niamh Towey and septuagenarian book lover Ann Ingle discuss The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien. The book was published in 1960 and described as a “smear on Irish womanhood” because of the way it laid bare the lives of young women in 1950s Ireland. It was famously banned and burned by the parish priest in O’Brien’s home county of Clare. In this episode, hear what our Book Club thought about this iconic Irish novel. Produced by Róisín Ingle and Jennifer Ryan

The Jimmy’s Hall Today assembly addresses the realities of the deportation system as it operates in Ireland today. For every person who comes to Ireland seeking refuge, the fear of deportation is deep. The assembly includes testimonies from international protection applicants and their supporters on how Department of Justice policy and procedures deeply affect their lives. It will also address the changes to detention and deportation procedures introduced by the International Protection Act 2016. The assembly is introduced by Director of the Abbey Theatre, Graham McLaren and facilitated & curated by actor Donal O'Kelly Contributions from: Vukasin Nedeljkovic: Photographer Lucky Khambule: Director of Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland Jimmy’s Hall actress Bríd Ní Neachtain as Alice Gralton. Dr. Anne Mulhall: ARN & UCD English Department Jimmy’s hall cast members Song for the Faithful Departed: Ruth McGill, Brian Gilligan, Andrew Linnie, Aindrias de Staic & Catherine Bell. Catherine Young: Dancer & Choreographer introduces It Takes a Village dance piece with 20 dancers, musicians and vocalist. Mrs. Sabina Higgins reads from Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs Jimmy’s hall cast members: Whitney Houston’s I Want to dance with Somebody: Sarah Madigan, Muiris Crowley, Bríd Ní Neachtain, Aindrias de Staic, Brian Gilligan, Bosco Hogan, Catherine Bell, Andrew Linnie & Ruth McGill. From the Hall: Vekash Khokhar: Nurse, volunteer, community member & dancer. Mona Considine : General Manager, Backstage Theatre, Longford Paul Gralton: Descendant of James Gralton. Jimmy’s Hall Today is hosted by the Abbey Theatre, convened by MASI (Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland) and Afri. Podcast Editor: Lisa Farrelly/ Sound Guru: Derek Conaghy 270818

The final of the episodes recorded during the Edinburgh Fringe and Robin and Josie are joined by Baileys and Goldsmith prize winner, the novelist Eimear McBride. They chat about her latest work The Lesser Bohemians and the process of writing the acclaimed A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing as well as great songwriters, James Joyce, Beckett, Edna O'Brien and much more. Also Josie still has a bag of frozen peas on her knee. Become a supporter of the show at patreon.com/bookshambles to get extended episodes and much more.

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Dès qu’il franchit le seuil de l’unique pub ouvert dans ce trou perdu d’Irlande, l’étranger suscite la fascination. Vladimir Dragan est originaire du Monténégro. Il entend s’établir comme guérisseur. On lui trouve un logement, un cabinet médical, et sa première cliente, une des quatre nonnes du lieu, sort de sa séance totalement régénérée. Rien d’étonnant à ce que Fidelma, très belle et mariée à un homme bien plus âgé qu’elle, tombe sous le charme. L’idylle s’interrompt quand Dragan est arrêté. Recherché par toutes les polices, il a vécu à Cloonoila sous un faux nom. Inculpé pour génocide, nettoyage ethnique, massacres, tortures, il est emmené à La Haye, où il rendra compte de ses crimes. Le titre choisi par Edna O’Brien s’éclaire alors, ainsi que l’introduction rappelant que 11 541 petites chaises rouges avaient été installées à Sarajevo en 2012 pour commémorer la mémoire des victimes du siège Le vrai sujet de cet extraordinaire roman n’est pourtant pas la guerre civile de Bosnie, ni la figure de Radovan Karadzic, dont il s’inspire. Avec une infinie tendresse et une infinie compassion, la grande romancière irlandaise se penche sur le destin d’une femme ordinaire, que sa naïveté a rendue audacieuse, et dont l’existence a été ravagée pour avoir vécu, sans savoir à qui elle avait affaire, une brève histoire d’amour avec l’un des monstres les plus sanguinaires du XXe siècle Après l’arrestation de Vlad, il est impossible pour Fidelma de rester en Irlande. Réfugiée à Londres, dans le monde souterrain des laissés-pour-compte, elle vit de petits boulots, hantée par une honte indépassable, et par la terreur. La prose d’Edna O’Brien est éblouissante : comme dans la vie, passant de la romance à l’horreur, d’un lyrisme tremblé au réalisme le plus cru, de la beauté au sentiment d’effroi le plus profond, elle nous donne, avec ce roman de la culpabilité et de la déchéance d’une femme, son absolu chef-d’œuvre.

Rosalie Ham is the author of The Dressmaker, Summer at Mount Hope, and There Should Be More Dancing.The Dressmaker was made into a movie starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and Hugo Weaving, amongst others, and opened at the number one spot at the Australian and New Zealand box offices, and became the second highest grossing Australian film of 2015.  Find out more about Rosalie's work at RosalieHam.com. What you'll learn:1. Rosalie's thoughts on the Hollywood box office success of The Dressmaker.2. The one trait you must have to succeed as a writer.3. How a negative review has turned out to Rosalie's advantage.4. Why Rosalie prefers the company of the main characters in There Should Be More Dancing. FULL TRANSCRIPT Elizabeth: Welcome to Writers’ Tête-à-tête with Elizabeth Harris, the show that connects Authors, Poets and Songwriters with their global audience. So I can continue to bring you high-caliber guests, I want you to go to iTunes, click Subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends. I’m delighted to introduce today’s guest, Rosalie Ham. Rosalie was born and raised in Jerilderie, New South Wales, Australia. Prior to Rosalie’s life as a bestselling author, she worked in a variety of jobs, including a stint in aged care. Rosalie completed a Bachelor in Education majoring in Drama and Literature in 1989, and completed her Master of Arts (Creative Writing) in 2007. In 2000, Rosalie published her first novel, The Dressmaker, now a major box office hit. The Dressmaker opened at the number one spot at the Australian and New Zealand box offices, and became the second highest grossing Australian film of 2015, and the eleventh highest grossing film of all time at the Australian box office. The costumes from this poignant film have been featured in several costume exhibitions. Rosalie is jetting off to New York soon for a special screening of The Dressmaker before its release on September 23rd. Rosalie’s second novel, Summer at Mount Hope, was published in 2005. And in 2011, we were privileged to receive yet another great novel, There Should Be More Dancing, which we will feature today. Rosalie Ham, welcome to Writers’ Tête-à-tête with Elizabeth Harris. Rosalie: Thank you, Elizabeth. Elizabeth: Rosalie, we both worked in aged care before launching our writing careers. Can you tell me a little about how serving others has impacted you? Rosalie: Enormously. Looking after elderly people was probably one of the best things I’ve ever done. And I think possibly because of all the information, all the learning, all the experience, all the history, and because of their outlook on life at that stage in their life. They seem to be quite – a lot of them seem to be quite resigned to the life they’ve led and others are quite happy about the life they’ve led and others are quite bitter about the life they should have led, I suppose. But I thoroughly enjoyed it, I learned a huge amount. I enjoy enormously old people and of course it makes you see what’s important and what’s not. Elizabeth: Just because they’re usually perceptive, isn’t it. Rosalie: Yes. Elizabeth: And learning too from their wisdom, whether they actually enjoyed their life or whether they have not quite enjoyed, they laugh as well. Rosalie. Yes, and we learned about war and why the men were like that. We learned about some of the lives of the women. Most particularly, a lot of the women got married early because that was what was expected of them, and a lot of women were actually quite disappointed in the whole thing. Elizabeth: That sense of duty to the country, wasn’t it. Rosalie: Yes. And then of course you see the elderly ladies coming and sitting at their husbands’ bedside, the devoted true-love matches that have endured 60 years. That’s very sad when one of them has to be looked after by other people. It’s sad for their wives. They come in, sometimes twice a day. It’s just very real. Elizabeth: Sure. When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Rosalie: Do you know, I’ve always known it, but it was only hindsight that told me that I had always known it. I wrote stories as a kid, I put on plays with all my imaginary friends, and my best friend Terrie and I put on acting performances at primary school. So there’s always been a sense of story and drama. And there’s always been a sense of an audience for all those things. But of course if you weren’t raised in the way I was, be able to get a good job and support yourself and that … Happily, I was given the alternative, like if I was unfortunate enough to not get married and be supported, my parents always wanted me to have a job. So I trained to have a job and I put any writing aspirations to the side. But I always wrote letters and I always kept a bit of a journal. And occasionally I would write a short story. And I knew that I could spin a yarn because people would say to me, “Can you write me a letter, like in your letters?” And then one day I just got bored with life and seeing that I’d done everything else that I was supposed to do, it seemed there was something a bit not there, something a bit missing, so I went off to writing school. And I think I was sitting in that writing class for about three weeks before I went, actually there was something physical emotional sensation that came across me and I went, “Aha!” This is where I remember the classroom and this is where I remember “I can do this”, where I feel good. That moment there – it was excellent. Elizabeth: Can you advise all the aspiring writers out there how to get started, and more importantly how to keep going? Rosalie: It’s tenacity – and I kind of believe that everybody could be a writer if they wanted to. But you’ve got to have the inclination, and you’ve got to want to sit in a room on your own for a very, very long time, and you’ve got to be quite comfortable doing that, and then perhaps being rejected. But I just think you need to be bored enough as well. Like there needs to be something not in your life that you can find happiness in doing that – in doing that menial task, just sitting in your room on your own with that computer and being dedicated to all those characters. A huge amount of writers will drop out of a writing course partway into it. They discover that it’s not for them, so I think that if you were still sitting in that room after a year and you’re still walking around thinking about your story, then you have the temperament to sit down and be able to do it. You’ve got to have a degree of talent, and you’ve got to have a degree of tenacity to be able to do it. You just got to stick at it. My personal philosophy is that you need to get it all down on the page, and then once you’ve got all the words, then you have something to craft. Elizabeth: They talk about writing junk, don’t they, and then eventually you fine-tune that. Rosalie: You do, and that’s a skill too. I think that’s a really important part of writing. You can go back and recognize what the junk is. You’re quite happy to chop it out, and you feel quite confident that you’ll be able to write more, and write again, and keep writing, that there’s something in you that will keep doing that. So if you have to cut out ten pages, it’s not a problem. Elizabeth: It’s almost like there’s that sense of non-attachment too, because you are too attached to what you’ve written down, you can’t let it go. You need to have that free-flowing feeling about things. Rosalie: But you’ve got to write – I agree with you completely, you’ve got to be writing so that other people will read it. Other authors say they don’t write for an audience, but I write something that is well-crafted, well I try to anyway, and other readers might disagree with me, but I do try to write something that’s well-crafted that will keep the reader engaged. So I do have a reader in mind when I’m writing, so therefore I’m quite happy to edit and get rid of things, I learned that earlier on. With my first edit actually, I learned that you have to let things go, and I was quite happy to do it. Elizabeth: Great. And I know that when I read your work, I giggle right through. Do you do that too? Rosalie: Yeah you know sometimes you need to. I was preparing for this interview a few weeks ago, and I picked up There Should Be More Dancing, and I read a couple of pages and I thought, “Gosh! That’s…that’s quite okay.” Elizabeth: Absolutely. Rosalie: And I was watching an interview with Edna O’Brien on television last night, and the interviewer read something of hers to her, and she had to ask him which book it was from. He said it was The Country Girls. And I felt quite happy about that, because honestly I’ve forgotten a lot of what I’ve written. Elizabeth: When you’re writing, Rosalie, what is your major source of support – or who? Rosalie: No one. I suppose I will have to say my husband; he knows not to – I think he can tell by the tone – and my shoulders are … Then he will ask me a question and then he kind of backs off, because you know, I’m in the middle of doing something. I speak a lot to the dog that’s lying there on the … Elizabeth: Yes, Eric’s there, having a bit of a sleep. Rosalie: And I’ve got a really good friend Terrie, and I talk … whinge to her about it. She doesn’t really listen to what I’m saying, but at least I can air my thoughts. And there’s a couple of other writers that I have dinner with from time to time, and we’ll have a little bit of a whinge. And so I think those things…But there’s not one huge great thing.  I guess it’s my desire to get to the end of it too that keeps me tripping over, sitting there typing. Elizabeth: Letting you come back into it again. Rosalie: Absolutely. Elizabeth: You’ve had phenomenal success with The Dressmaker. What does being successful mean to you? Rosalie: You know, people ask me that, and it actually hasn’t altered my life at all, really. I’ve got a nice car and I’ve paid off my mortgage, which is a huge relief. It’s a blessing to have that off there, but I think what it means now is that when I do publish my … when publishing houses get hold of my fourth manuscript that I’ve just finished, they will look at it in a different way, given the success of The Dressmaker. And along with that, that has meant people have started reading Summer of Mount Hope and There Should Be More Dancing, so they are reaching a wider audience, and I can’t tell you how happy I am about that. Elizabeth: Wonderful. Rosalie: And of course that means I’ve been published in other countries as well. And all of that is amazing. It’s amazing to have that kind of affirmation, and people pick up your book and look at it differently because there’s been one successful book, so they have a certain expectation about the others. There are some people that will go into my other books with trepidation and possibly a little bit of cynicism. But there are others who will go with a lovely attitude. So I’m really, really happy about that but I think most importantly, it’s an affirmation for me. It’s a double-edged thing; I feel quite affirmed by that success, but also slightly more terrified because there is that expectation. Elizabeth: And does it in one way create a sense of pressure? Rosalie: Absolutely, it does. But that’s alright. It comes back to that boredom or tenacity or something, but I just seem to be okay with that, and I’ll just try really hard not to read the reviews. I think that’s probably the best thing – just don’t read reviews, because they will scrutinize more, the reviews, so I will just have to deal with that. Elizabeth: Have they upset you in the past? Rosalie: Look, the very first review I ever read of The Dressmaker, I think was the worst review I’ve ever read of any book, ever. It was scathing, it was awful, and I photocopied it. And I was at home at the time, and my friend was with me, and I photocopied it and we took it to class. And we read it out to the class. They all looked – I can still see them, they were looking at me like “Oh my God”, and the teacher – bless him – said, “Right, okay, this is a good lesson to us all. What we’re going to do now, is we’re going to do some therapy with Rosalie. And I want everybody to close their books; we’re going to the pub.” (Laughter) So we went to the pub. So I of course have blown that review up, and it’s on my wall in there, and what I do with that review is … often, because The Dressmaker is on the VCE Lit. list, and often they study The Dressmaker – and one of the questions they’re asked when they’re doing their SAC’s, you know, other people’s opinions of the book as opposed to theirs. I happily had photocopied thousands of copies and handed them out to the schoolchildren of Victoria, to show them how one reviewer’s point of view can differ from theirs and how you don’t take literally or to heart every review, and how that can be damaging. So there’s a whole lot of schoolchildren out there who now know that particular reviewer got it terribly, terribly wrong. She missed the point. She missed the point entirely of the whole book. Elizabeth: So thank you very much to that person, because she certainly increased the determination all over Victoria, Australia, possibly the world… people who might be feeling a bit bruised. That’s great. In There Should Be More Dancing, I was particularly drawn to your main character Marjorie Blandon. I especially loved this quote: ‘Marjorie Blandon has led an upright, principled life guided by the wisdom of desktop calendars.’ As the novel progresses, the reader discovers that there are many secrets contained within Marjorie’s supposedly principled life. There Should Be More Dancing is such a great book, and showcases your wit beautifully. Can you please share one of your favourite passages from There Should Be More Dancing? Rosalie: I think – possibly – it would have to be the public scalping incident with Pat across the road. I think that’s probably the one I enjoyed writing the most. But actually Marjorie is my favourite person on the planet. She’s one of those people in the aged care facility, a little bit bigoted and a little bit prejudiced. Elizabeth: So I’ve looked after many Marjorie’s in my time in my nursing career… (Laughter) Rosalie: Look, I’m going to read the Public Scalping Incident, and it’s quite long. So I might just start off. It happened at the 1976 Ladies Legacy luncheon. Pat and Bill were big in Legacy, and for the ladies’ luncheon, Pat was allowed to take a guest as it was her turn to give the address. As she was rehearsing her address one last time, articulating and emphasizing her words to her assembled ballroom dancing frocks, the phone rang. She was disappointed to hear her guest Betty say her car had broken down. “I know it’s a long way Pat, but we could go halves on the price of a taxi.” So of course Pat doesn’t want to go halves on the price of a taxi. So she is forced to ask Marjorie to be her guest at the Legacy luncheon where she is to give her address, because Marjorie’s got a car. Elizabeth: That’s right. Rosalie: And so Marjorie ends up on the top table. And I’ll just read that bit there. So Marjorie found herself at the top table – the Legacy leaders’ table, a dignitary to her right and Pat on her left. Before her a sea of soft brown and blue curls and ample-bosomed ladies, floral and pastel with fleshy earlobes, wattles and dewlaps, all maintained by step-ins and various prosthetics. Before her propped a saucer of geranium petals surrounding a floating chrysanthemum, was a white card advertising the day’s proceedings. First on the program was the local choir, who sang ‘God Save The Queen’. The assembled ladies then sat through Number 2: welcome speech by the Chairwoman. Number 3: the main meal would be served – chicken or ham salad followed by Number 4, the choir singing ‘Morning Has Broken’, while the ladies enjoyed a fruit compote with custard. For Number 5, a lass from St Joseph’s School wrote a composition on the effects of war on those left behind. Her story was based on the life of her great-grandmother, who had grown her own vegetables and milked her cow and ploughed her own fields during the war to help the Land Army. Then it was Pat’s turn. The emcee said, “I give you Pat Crookshank, and this month’s address titled ‘The Unseen Effects of War on Women’. Pat bared her teeth to Marjorie and said, “Any fruit seeds stuck to my dentures?” “No,” said Marjorie. And Pat turned to stand up. At that moment, Marjorie noticed the tag poking out of the back of Pat’s cardigan. “Hang on,” she said, and reached out to tuck it in, when the catch on her wrist watch caught on one of Pat’s curls as she rose. Marjorie had no idea Pat wore a wig, no idea her hair had snapped off and fallen out from years and years of peroxide and perming fluid. Pat stood frozen before the room of fellow legatees, her rival addressees past and future, the thin tufts of her brittle hair flat against her damp shiny pate, and her wig dangling from Marjorie’s wrist watch. (Laughter) Finally someone started clapping. Pat had turned a deep red, and the audience, moved by her brave humility, started to applaud thunderously. (Applause) Elizabeth: This is weird, classical, absolutely delightful. How can we better that? (Laughter) Rosalie: Thanks. Elizabeth: What are you working on at the moment, Rosalie? Rosalie: I’ve just handed in my fourth novel. I think that’s the third or fourth time I’ve mentioned that in the last fifteen minutes – I’m so pleased. Elizabeth: We want you to mention it again. Rosalie: The fourth manuscript is … again, I’ve returned to a small community. A small community is a good palette for life’s tragedies, and it doesn’t really matter if it’s in a rural community or urban community or in your street or your football club or whatever. But small communities… Elizabeth: It’s all group dynamics, isn’t it. Rosalie: It is, absolutely. So this one’s set in a small country town and has to do with irrigation water and the effects of government buybacks and water allocations on this one small community. And one man – whose name is Mitchell Bishop – and he has a 12 km stretch of channel that needs to be replaced. But there are three areas in the town that are affected. There are the riparians who live along the river and there are the town folk and the shopkeepers, and of course there are the irrigators. And the impacts that the water renewal projects and the water restrictions and irrigation allocation has on that community. Elizabeth: Which would be huge, being a life force, water. Rosalie: Absolutely, yeah. And if you cut the allocation to the irrigators, they have to produce more with less water, and they have to spend more money to get less water to support the upgrade, and therefore they don’t spend money in the town. And so when one liter of water leaves the community, so does one job more or less. But in order to stay afloat, you need the water. You all need to work together. And of course the town people are resentful. Their water rates are going to go up to support the irrigators. The riparians are resentful because they’re going to suffer, they’re going to take more water, yet at the same time the world needs food. We have to feed people, and there are more people, so they need more food. So it’s a sort of distillation of that in a small community. Elizabeth: And all the dynamics that go with that, no doubt addressed very cleverly by you. Rosalie: Oh well actually there is love, and there is a bit of tragedy, and there’s a few things that go on. Elizabeth: If you had decided not to write your novels, what sort of career do you think you would have taken? Rosalie: Do you know, I often think about this, and I think that I probably would be a teacher. I still am a teacher. I still teach two days a week, but I think I probably would be working fulltime as a teacher, possibly in a secondary college. You know years ago I went for an interview to be a State Registered Nurse, you know, a nursing sister. But I just never did it. I was having far too much fun, so I only tried to be a State Enrolled Nurse, which was just the one-year course. And I think that was the key to my writing success, because if I’d been a State Registered Nurse, I think I probably would have been quite content with that, and I would have had a perfectly lovely life around that. Elizabeth: Ironically, I am a State Registered Nurse, but I have continued on to write, so maybe not, because you’ve got that enormous talent that we could not do without. Rosalie: Possibly, but it’s hard to speculate, but yeah, perhaps you’re right. Elizabeth: What is it about teaching that you love? Rosalie: Do you know, I think probably communication. Communicating ideas, and for me it’s seeing the light bulb go on. If you’re explaining something – and I teach Literature – explaining Shakespeare or reading Shakespeare or poetry or something and you stop and you look at those people and you go, “Okay, now this is what is happening”, and explain what is going on, they go “Oh…right…” and you send them off on a journey of self-exploration and you get them to find all those things. I think if you’re enthusiastic enough it infects the students, and they get carried away with the whole thing. You just – it’s communicating the information and seeing them go “Oh okay, I get it”. Elizabeth: And you’d be a fabulous teacher – very, very entertaining. (Laughter) What do you like to do in your spare time to unwind? Rosalie:  I read. I read books. And I play golf. I love to play golf. Go for a lovely long walk. And I enjoy going for a nice drive in the country, going home to the farm, doing something quite different. Elizabeth: Do you have a special place you like to go other than the farm? Rosalie: No, it’s just the farm – the family farm. And there’s something about standing on a farm and being able to see the horizon, with no obstructions, nothing to block your imagination and stop your vision at this point. There’s nothing, so your vision goes on, and as it goes on, things fall away and you understand what’s important. One of my favourite things to do is sit in the ute with my brother as he goes about his sheep work. And my job is to open the gate – that’s something I’ve been doing since I was able to open a gate – and just watch him go about doing his business, asking dumb questions about farming things. It just puts everything back into perspective for me and time is slower in the country. Elizabeth: Yes, it’s wonderful. What does your brother think of your success? Rosalie: Oh they’re thrilled to bits. They were all very good you know, because it’s in a small community - they love it if someone is out there kicking goals. You know, they really think it’s a terrific and wonderful thing and I’m very grateful to that. We’ve been back to Jerilderie and they’ve received us very well. It’s been really good, and the Ham family up at J seem to be coping with it all quite well. Of course a lot of them were in the film as extras and they come down if I have a book launch. They’ll come down for a special trip you know, and they’ll make that effort to come down, which I appreciate enormously. Elizabeth: And you were in the film too! Rosalie: Yeah, no, I’m an extra as well. Elizabeth: I’ve seen you in the film. How was that for you? How did you feel when you were doing all that great acting? Rosalie: Do you know, I probably … I think I’m more content in the company of Marjorie Blandon and her lovely son Walter in There Should Be More Dancing. I think my days of being an extra have come and gone. It was fun, and I enjoyed it, but really when I finished that fourth manuscript the other day and handed it in, it was just such a heartwarming thing. Because that whole thing about your characters and creating the arc and all that sort of stuff, and me doing it rather than participating in somebody else’s, is probably some sort of vanity or narcissism, but I actually prefer that. I actually prefer that, to be doing my own thing in my own room, creating my own little story, rather than revisiting them when they’re out in the world. Elizabeth: And the characterization of There Should Be More Dancing is so rich. Rosalie: Yeah, no, I loved writing that book and I loved all those people. I love that Judith came good in the end. I had a huge amount of fun writing that book. Elizabeth: I enjoyed every page; I must say thank you very much for that book. It was fantastic. Do you have a website or blog where my listeners can find out more about your work? Rosalie: I do. It’s www-dot-Rosalie-Ham-dot-com and there’s a blog there. And I wrote that while I was being an extra in The Dressmaker. But now that I’ve handed in the fourth manuscript, I’ll probably go back and write a few more things on different topics. And Summer at Mount Hope is being published in the United Kingdom right now, and I’m hoping someone will pick up There Should Be More Dancing. They told me that it’s not a story that will translate well in other countries but I’m just really hoping it does. Elizabeth: I really disagree, but then that’s me. Rosalie: Yeah, no, I disagree too but let’s just see what happens…my third one…my third child Elizabeth: Rosalie, this is a signature question I ask all my guests. What do you wish for – for the world, and most importantly, for yourself? Rosalie: It’s basically the same thing, it’s Health. For the world of course – I just think … I hope we get our act together … climate change. I hope we get our act together over less advantaged countries and poverty and educating women in disadvantaged countries. If the women rise, the village will rise with them. You always hope for those sorts of things. I don’t think we’re ever going to stop any kind of war; I think that’s human nature. But basically for my health I just would like for me and everybody else around me to be healthy and happy. That’s all that’s important. Elizabeth: That’s one thing you can’t have too much of. Rosalie Ham, thank you so much for guesting on Writers’ Tete-a-Tete with Elizabeth Harris. We look forward to more of your work and your fantastic characterizations. I totally agree with you and Florence: “There should be more dancing.” Thanks for tuning in everyone. If you enjoy this episode and want more high-caliber guests, subscribe to Writers’ Tête-à-tête with Elizabeth Harris on iTunes and may all your wishes come true. [END OF TRANSCRIPT]

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The Quiet Man Revisited exhibit at MoMA runs through June 3rd, here is some of the discussion after the film with Gabriel Byrne.  Patrick Fitzgerald discusses playing Conn the Shaughraun at Irish Rep; Michelle Woods reviews Edna O’Brien’s Saints and Sinners (O’Brien is at Symphony Space Wednesday), and Roddy Doyle’s The Dead Republic, featuring a fictional IRA consultant on The Quiet Man (there was, in fact, a real one); and Mike Farragher tells us what’s in his mailbag.  And the song of the week!

Irish writer Edna O'Brien discusses The Country Girls, her novel about adolescence set in 1950's Ireland.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the writer Edna O'Brien. Described as a 'poet of heartbreak' her lyrical storytelling captures the fragility and pain of the human condition, reflecting the drama of her own life as much as the imagined journeys of her characters. She was born and raised in a small village in County Clare, where the only books in the house were prayer books which sat alongside her father's bloodstock magazines. Her mother thought writing was in essence sinful and tried fiercely to stop her becoming an author. She was living in England when she published her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960. It was a huge hit and was critically well received - but in Ireland she was decried and her book was burnt in the streets. Although she's lived in London for most of her adult life, she continues to draw on her Irish background for inspiration - she says: "it's in my roots, and when I dream at night it's the place I go". [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Foggy Dew (Sinead O'Connor) by The Chieftains Book: Ulysses by James Joyce Luxury: Vault of a very good white wine

Edna O'Brien joins James Naughtie and a group of readers at the British Library to talk about her book Down by the River.

The castaway this week is the Irish writer Edna O'Brien, whose first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960 to great acclaim. She's also become well-known for her appearances on radio and television. In conversation with Michael Parkinson, she looks back on her career and, in her choice of music, reveals a wide taste ranging from Elvis Presley to Carl Orff. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Canon In D by Johann Pachelbel Book: Complete Encyclopaedia Britannica Luxury: Cristal champagne