LAOIS EDUCATION CENTRE / NATIONAL READING INITIATIVE

ALL THE WORLD’S A SCHOOL

Authors speaking on their Lives and Work

In association with Laois Arts Office, Laois County Library, The Women’s Literary Group and Laois Vocational Educational Committee.

Author :JOHN QUINN

Date:Thursday 16^th November 2000

Time :7.30 p.m.

RTE Radio Producer of The Open Mind and the series My Education. His programmes have won awards in Ireland and abroad.He has written a series of successful novels for young people, and edited ‘A Portrait for the Artist as a Young Girl,’ based on his radio interviews with women writers on their childhood.

Máire Mhac an tSaoi
Date:Thursday 8th March
Time:7.30pm
Venue: Laois Education Centre

Booking £5.00

Author :JENNIFER JOHNSTON

Date :Thursday 1^st February 2001

Time :7.30 p.m.

One of the finest Irish writers.Her books include Shadows on Our Skin (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and How Many Miles to Babylon (New Leaving Certificate English Programme).Her latest book is The Gingerbread Woman.

Other authors who will be involved in 2001 are:-

Author : NIALL WILLIAMS

Date : Spring 2001 – to be confirmed

Niall Williams gave up a publishing career in New York to return to West Clare where he teaches and writes.He has written autobiographical non-fiction, three plays for the Abbey Theatre, three novels and is currently working on the screenplay of “Four Letters of Love” (shortlisted in 1999 for the Irish Literature fiction award).

Author:MÁIRE MHAC an tSAOI

Date : Thursday 8^th March 2001

Dhá chnuasach filíochta foilsithe aici, Margadh na Saoire (1956); agus Codladh an Ghaiscigh (1974); An Cion go dtí Seo.Tá cuid mhór aisti liteartha foilsithe aici chomh maith.

Author : JOHN McGAHERN

Date : Thursday 5th April 7.30 at Laoisedcentre

Author of three collections of short stories and five highly acclaimed novels, of which Amongst Women (shortlisted for the Booker Prize) won the Irish Literature Prize for fiction in 1990 and was serialized by R.T.E.

BOOKINGS:Booking fee £5.00 per Seminar to

Laois Education Centre, Block Road, Portlaoise.

Phone : (0502) 61170

Light refreshments will be provided.