The successes of Maggie O’Farrell and Sally Rooney is indicative of what has happened in the last decade to English-language literature. Is the new Irish tradition linked to the experimental writing of the past?
The Irish actor, who plays Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett in ‘Dance First,’ discusses the perils of fame
The Irish Nobel Prize winner was a precise portraitist of terrifying years that could return at any moment
The narrative of the continent continues to be burdened by the absence of a common strategy in a space of miscegenation with no shared language
Shaped by the political and literary climate of the time, the award does not assure a spot in the literary canon and often overlooks exceptional authors