Tune in to hear Colm in conversation with Hugo Hamilton about his novel The Pages, his book choice for April.
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‘This is an ingeniously told story, narrated by an actual book, a novel by the Austrian writer Joseph Roth, offering an account of its picaresque travels to America and back to Europe, while in the background we learn of the life of Joseph
Roth himself and the dark times he lived in.’
Colm Tóibín, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024 |
Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People, a memoir of his German-Irish childhood in Dublin, growing up with his German mother and prohibited by his revolutionary Irish father from speaking English. As a novelist
and playwright, his work has won many international awards, including the French Prix Femina Etranger and the DAAD scholarship in Berlin, as well as the prestigious Bundesverdienstkreutz, awarded by the German state for his understanding
of cultural diversity. Hamilton is a member of the Aosdána and lives in Dublin.
His latest novel is The Pages, published by Fourth Estate 2021 and by Knopf in the USA February 2022.
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credit: Marc O'Sullivan |