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SEIS Academic Forum Series

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Forum on Irish Studies

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IMAGES, WILDERNESS AND LYRICISM

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Speaker: Sara Baume

Time: 14:00-15:00

Date: 21 March 2018 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room 115, School of English and International Studies,

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Introduction

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Sara Baume will share her two novels Spill Simmer Falter Wither and A Line Made by Walking during the speech. In Baume’s multi award-winning debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, a 57-year-old misfit, who is “too old for starting over, too young for giving up” takes in a one-eyed, vicious dog that no one else would take. As the seasons pass their relationship grows and as their life is thrown into turmoil a profound story of loss, loneliness and friendship emerges in what was hailed as “a stunning and wonderful achievement by a writer touched by greatness.” In Baume’s latest novel, A Line Made by Walking, a young artist retreats to a rural bungalow as she tries to regain her footing in art and life. Finding little comfort in human interaction, she turns her camera lens on the natural world and its reassuring cycle of life and death. What emerges is a profound meditation on the interconnectedness of wilderness, art and individual experience, and a powerful exploration of human frailty.

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About the Speaker

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Sara Baume is an Irish novelist whose short fiction and criticism have been published in anthologies, newspapers and journals such as the Irish Times, the Guardian, Stinging Fly and Granta magazine. She won the 2014 Davy Byrne’s Short Story Award, and in 2015, the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, the Rooney Prize for Literature and an Irish Book Award for Best Newcomer.

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Her debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Warwick Prize for Writing, the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction and the International Dublin Literary Award. It was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Kate O’ Brien Award.

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In autumn 2015, she was a participant in the International Writing Program run by the University of Iowa and received a from the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She grew up in east Cork and now lives in West Cork.