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Mary Costello and Donal Ryan

  • 6.30pm

Donal Ryan - Le Coeur qui tourneMary Costello - Academy Street

Acclaimed new writers Mary Costello and Donal Ryan launch the French translation of their first novels at the Embassy of Ireland.

Mary Costello’s Academy Street tells the evocative story of one woman’s life played out against the backdrop of life in America over four decades and won Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2014. Donal Ryan’s intimate and darkly comic debut novel The Spinning Heart reveals the human cost of the financial crisis in Ireland. It was long listed for the Booker Prize in 2013 and won the Guardian First Book Award in the same year.

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