Adania Shibli
LITERARY
Adania Shibli
In conversation with Louise Kennedy
Thurs 11 July | 8pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Thurs 11 July | 8pm
Duration:
75 minutes
Event Categories:
Literary
Admission:
€12
Age Suitability:
14+
Venue:
The Clayton Hotel (Pegasus Room)
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Adania Shibli, born in Palestine in 1974, earned her PhD from the University of East London in Media and Cultural Studies. She has twice been awarded with the Qattan Young Writer's Award-Palestine in 2001 for her novel Masaas (translated into English as Touch. Northampton: Clockroot), and in 2003 for her novel Kulluna Ba’id bethat al Miqdar aan el-Hub (translated into English as We Are All Equally Far from Love). She was honoured as one of the Beirut39, a selection of the most promising Arab writers under forty by the Hay Festival. Currently, Shibli teaches at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine and resides in Berlin.
Her third novel, "Minor Detail," translated by Elisabeth Jaquette, was published by Fitzcarraldo in 2020 and was longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It is a searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.
.. a work of undeniable political urgency. Stinging Fly
This is an astonishing, major book. John Freeman, Lithub
A sophisticated, oblique novel about empathy and the urge to right wrongs. Anthony Cummins, Observer
The most talked-about writer on the West Bank. Ahdaf Soueif
All novels are political and Minor Detail, like the best of them, transcends the author’s own identity and geography. Shibli’s writing is subtle and sharply observed. Fatima Bhutto, Guardian
Adania will be in conversation with writer Louise Kennedy. Louise Kennedy grew up in Holywood, Co. Down. Her short story collection, The End of the World is a Cul de Sac (Bloomsbury/ Riverhead US 2021) won the John McGahern Prize. Her debut novel, Trespasses (Bloomsbury/ Riverhead US 2022) won Eason's Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize and Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. Before she started writing, she spent nearly thirty years working as a chef. She lives in Sligo.