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The
Franco-Irish Literary Festival
is the result of successful
collaboration between the
Alliance Française and
the
Cultural Service of the French Embassy.
It has been supported to great effect by such Irish
organisations as The
Arts Council,
Culture Ireland and
Foras
na Gaeilge among
others. Irish and French sponsors such as
Ireland Fund of France,
Dublin City Council,
Irish
Distillers,
Servier Laboratories … and the
Irish press.
The
Festival has, since its inception in
2000,
become a significant date (springtime) in the annual
literary calendar of Dublin.
The
Coach House
and the
Chester
Beatty Library, both
situated in
Dublin Castle, are the
venues for the Festival and help to create the uniquely
“convivial” atmosphere of the event.
The
Festival’s aim is to widen and enhance the long-standing
friendship that exists between
Ireland,
France
and other French-speaking
countries. It welcomes
writers in both the English and Irish languages,
together with writers of the wider francophone world and
other European literatures. In doing so it provides an
opportunity to showcase a wide selection of Irish and
French writers before the Irish public.
The
programme and selection of authors is made by a
Franco-Irish Committee
including important personalities of the
Literary, Academic and Publishing
world and Irish
institutions such as
Poetry Ireland,
Ireland Literature Exchange,
Irish Writers’ Centre…
Each
year the festival presents a
central theme
and writers from different languages and cultures, are
given the opportunity to exchange experiences and ideas
around this theme in an informal setting.
Debates,
interviews,
"cafés littéraires",
readings,
book sales
and signings
take place over the three
days of the festival.
Among the celebrities invited since 2000 the festival
has welcomed such French writers as
J.M.G. Le Clézio,
Michel Déon,
Noelle Chatelet,
Jean-Christophe Rufin,
Amin Maalouf,
Azouz Begag,
Jean-Paul Kauffmann... and
such Irish writers as
Joseph O’Connor,
John Banville,
Roddy Doyle,
Hugo Hamilton,
Brian Keenan,
Patrick McCabe,
Sebastian Barry,
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill…
The
Franco-Irish Literary Festival offers a rare opportunity
to spend three days in an
exciting and stimulating literary environment.
All
events open to the
public and free
with simultaneous
translation provided in
English and French. Since 2006, the Festival is
organising a
Book Crossing,
a treasure hunt of a new kind, one month before and
after the Festival.
For every
edition a special website is created with its own
design, programme, biographies. You can consult the
previous editions websites
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