An Evening with Mary Costello - Reading and Discussion

Location: The Ghent Centre of Irish Studies

The Irish author Mary Costello is touring Belgium as part of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary. In association with EFACIS, UGent’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. Her writing has been praised by JM Coetzee, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Enright, and Eimear McBride, among others

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 here, 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, and Mary will be signing books during the wine reception.

Mary will be joined in conversation by Dr Ciarán Kavanagh, of UGent’s English Literature section, who will also facilitate an audience Q&A.