Venue: Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy

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In conversation with Jan Carson

HomePlace is
delighted to welcome two of Ireland’s foremost writers whose work explores
themes of place, relationships and the female experience.

Christine Dwyer Hickey was born in Dublin and is a
novelist and short story writer. Her recent novel The Narrow Land won
the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the inaugural Dalkey Literary
Award. 2020 also saw her 2004 novel Tatty chosen for UNESCO's
Dublin One City One Book promotion. Her work has been widely translated and is
an elected member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of arts. Her new novel Our London
Lives – which will be published in September – follows
the lives of two misfits over a period of forty years. 

Mary Costello lives in Galway.
Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for
the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her
first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year
Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. The
River Capture, her second novel, was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at
the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Book Awards and the Kerry Group Awards. This
year she published Barcelona her second book of short stories, a
captivating collection exploring love, loss and the turbulent lives of ordinary
people.

We are delighted to welcome Mary
and Christine to The Helicon to chat about their work with author Jan Carson.