Event Theme

Claire Kilroy is the author of three novels. Her debut, All Summer, was awarded the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Her second novel, Tenderwire was also shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, as well as the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year. Her latest novel, All Names Have Been Changed is set in 1980s Dublin and centres around a great Irish writer and his Trinity writing class.

Tash Aw grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before attending university in England. His first novel, The Harmony Silk Factory, was the winner of the 2006 Whitbread First Novel Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel, as well as being longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, IMPAC Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. It has been translated into 20 languages. His new novel Map of the Invisible World was published in April 2009.

Entry Fee

€15 / €12

Venue

The Arms Hotel

Time

Thursday 3rd June

3.30pm