John Banville reading at opening of Centre for Contemporary Writing Maastricht

To celebrate the opening of the Centre for Contemporary Writing Maastricht, a public reading and live interview with the celebrated Booker Prize-winning Irish novelist, John Banville, will be organised on Thursday 21 May from 19.00-20.30. A free Eventbrite ticket is required to ensure admission. Space is limited.

Banville is considered to be a master stylist and “one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today” (The Washington Post). The forensic precision, dark humour and inventiveness of his prose puts him in the tradition of Nabokov and explains his formidable track record of awards and honours, having won the Franz Kafka Prize, the Irish Book Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the Irish PEN Award, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature in the last three years alone. Aside from his literary fiction, plays and screenplays, Banville writes thrillers under the pseudonymn: Benjamin Black. He has published sixteen novels to date.

To interview Mr. Banville, we have invited Dr. Elke D’hoker, a Banville scholar and lecturer from the department of literature at the K.U.Leuven. Her research is centrally involved with Irish literature, in particular nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She has published a critical study of the work of John Banville (Rodopi 2004) and has co-edited a collection of essays on unreliable first-person narration (De Gruyter, 2008).

The event will take place at the Turnzaal at Maastricht University’s Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences on 21 May. A book signing will follow the interview. Space is limited, so a free Eventbrite ticket is necessary to ensure admission. To reserve a ticket, please register. If you have requested a ticket and are unable to attend the event, please de-register or inform us at c.hughes@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

About the CCW

The Centre for Contemporary Writing, to open in May 2015, will provide a platform for knowledge and expertise exchange regarding recent developments in writing and publishing professions. It is a collaboration between Maastricht University (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) and Zuyd Hogeschool (Faculteit International Business and Communication), and involves partners such as the Centre Céramique, the Jan van Eyck Academie and the Huis voor de Kunsten Limburg. The CCW will provide research and teaching expertise focused on developments in creative writing and contemporary literature, transitions in professional writing professions such as journalism, translation, and blogging. It will enable dialogue between researchers, contemporary literature scholars, writing professionals and their audiences, while enriching the (colloquial, critical and creative) conversations taking place in Maastricht. Monthly readings and discussions at the centre will accommodate and encourage those conversations.

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