WRITING – I write from necessity. If I’m not writing, I’m miserable. I’ve written lots of non-fiction over the years but I reached a turning point in 2009 when I was short listed for the Virginia [Woolf] prize for my novel, Bone and Blood, published in 2014. Now every day is a writing day wherever I am.
Gunther
Gunther will be my third novel. It is about writing and AI Das Buch erscheint im Herbst. Stay tuned!
Michel-Michelle
My second novel Michel-Michelle challenges fixed notions of gender and seeks to increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends, our families, and others.
Bone and Blood
My first novel, Bone and Blood, was inspired by a visit to Ravensbrück concentration camp near Berlin where I found out some Irish women had been imprisoned during the Second World War.
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Evin
Born in Evin is the title of Maryam Zaree’s documentary about her own life. After its premiere at the Berlin film festival, it merits wide distribution. The Prison Memoir of Nasrin Parvaz, One Woman’s Struggle in Iran, pub. Victorina Press describes…
Homeplace
“I just wrote to go home. It was a place to be where I felt I was safe. And so, I write to fix a reality.” Lucia Berlin articulates the impetus for many creative spirits, She lived in many places…
Bridget in Berlin
@irishembassyberlin is hosting Irish women writers Sara Baume, Audrey Mc Gee, Lisa Mc Inerney, Eimear Mc Bride, Julia Kelly, Louise O’Neill for St. Brigid’s day. I wish I was there in my second Heimat to hear them. Sara Baume is…
Heimat?
What does Brexit mean for my Ulster Heimat? Heimat? ‘In a sense it means home, the castle in a person’s heart, if you will …. but in truth there is no specific English translation,’ to quote a character in Patrick…
Heimat
Heimat – the place where the language of being comes naturally and you can read the faces and gestures of the people around you. Can unpacking „home“ in the German word help with the sense of dislocation, aggravated for many…
Moya Roddy
Thanks Moya for bringing me „A quieting o the self“ in the chosen place with your collection of poems Out of the Ordinary.