THE AWARD winning Irish novelist Claire Kilroy will read at the next Over The Edge: Open Reading in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, on Thursday February 24 at 6.30pm.
Claire Kilroy is the author of three novels which loosely form a trilogy about the obsessions and exhilarations of art. Her debut, All Summer, a literary thriller about a stolen painting, was awarded the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Her second novel, Tenderwire, a love story between a violinist and a masterpiece violin, was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year as well as the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Her latest novel, All Names Have Been Changed, set in 1980s Dublin and centring around an Irish writer and his Trinity writing class, was published recently.
Also reading are Corkonian Bríd Buckley, who writes poetry and fiction, and Co Mayo poet Susan Kelly.
There will be an open-mic when the featured readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. The MC will be Susan Millar DuMars. For more information contact 087 - 6431748 or see http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/
