Lecture 'An Evening with Mary Costello, 2025 Irish Itinerary Author'
- For whom
- Employees , Private individuals , Students
- When
- 25-03-2025 from 17:30 to 19:00
- Where
- Campus Boekentoren, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Department of Literary Studies - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
- Contact
- ciaran.kavanagh@ugent.be
Irish author Mary Costello visits Ghent University's Vandenhove Pavilion to read from and discuss her new short story collection Barcelona (2024).
The Irish author Mary Costello is touring Belgium as part of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary. In association with EFACIS, Ghent University's English Literature Section has organised An Evening with Mary Costello.
Mary will read from her critically acclaimed short story collection Barcelona (2024), which The Guardian has heralded as “extraordinarily compelling.” Mary is the previous recipient of both the Irish Book of the Year and the 2014 EU Prize for Literature.
The event is being hosted in UGent’s Vandenhove Pavilion (March 25, 17.30-18:45) and will be followed by a wine reception in The Wintercircus. The event will be conducted in English.
Entry is free and open to all interested, but please register at the link provided, or through the QR code on the poster. Paard Van Troje will operate a book table for those who wish to purchase books at the event, which Mary will be happy to sign.
Mary will be joined in conversation by Dr Ciarán Kavanagh, of UGent’s English Literature section.