An Hour With Claire Keegan

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When:

Sat 14 May ’11, 2:30pm–3:30pm

Where: ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre, 50 Mayoral Drive, Auckland CBD Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

Ticket Information:

Festival Club: $16.00
Earlybird: $20.00
Standard: $25.00
Student: $12.50
Booking fees may apply

Website:

Auckland Writers and Readers Festival

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“Foster puts on display an imposing array of formal beauties at the service of a deep and profound talent... She brings a thrilling synaesthetic instinct for the unexpected right word, and exhibits patient attention to life’s vast consequence and finality... a high-wire act of uncommon narrative virtuosity.” - Richard Ford

Claire Keegan is an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer, a master of the short story, and an absorbing speaker on this much-loved form and writing in general. Foster, an extended version of the story which won the 2009 Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award, is an achingly beautiful work. Two previous award-winning collections, Antarctica and Walk the Blue Fields were published to enormous critical acclaim, and confirmed her status as one of Ireland’s greatest talents. Claire talks with Jan Cronin.