Efacis Location: Leuven Centre for Irish Studies, KUL
On Thursday 17 November, the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies welcomes two of Ireland’s most celebrated authors: Anne Enright who won the Booker Prize with The Gathering in 2007 and received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2018; and Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days and winner of the Rooney Prize and the BBC National Short Story Award.
From 2 to 4.30 pm, LCIS and the KU Leuven Child and Youth Institute collaborate for an interdisciplinary symposium on The Experience of Being a Mother. KU Leuven professors Guy Bosmans, Stefan Ramaekers, Titia Hompes and Nev Reyes-Espiritu present different perspectives on motherhood through an engagement with Anne Enright’s memoir Making Babies. Stumbling through Motherhood. The full programme can be found here.
In the evening, at 8 pm, Anne Enright and Lucy Caldwell will read from their work and engage in conversation about women, art and Ireland, both North and South at the Irish College, Leuven.
This event celebrates the launch of the EFACIS Anne Enright translation project. Over 100 translation of original texts by Anne Enright have already been published on the website. Nearly 90 translators have participated in this project so far and we have translations in more than 28 languages.
Photographs courtesy of Erik Derycke.
