- All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt (Penguin Random House)
- An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding by Eoghan Daltun (Hachette Books Ireland)
- Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara by Vona Groarke (New York University Press)
- Landscape Design and Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688–1815 by Finola O’Kane (Paul Mellon Centre/Yale University Press)
- Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Jane Ohlmeyer (Oxford University Press)
- The Celestial Realm by Molly Hennigan (Eriu)
The Royal Irish Academy is also delighted to welcome the 2023 Académie Française Michel Déon Prize winner, Pierre Adrian, to speak in conversation with Professor Clíona Ní Ríordáin of Notre Dame University.
Pierre Adrian (France, 1991) is a writer. In 2015, he published his first book, La Piste Pasolini, a narrative of an initiatory journey in the footsteps of the Italian poet and filmmaker, for which he received the Prix des Deux-Magots and the Prix François-Mauriac from the Académie Française. Pierre Adrian then published Des Âmes simples (Prix Roger-Nimier), Le Tour de la France par deux enfants d’aujourd’hui (with Philibert Humm) and Les Bons garçons, also published by Les Équateurs. In 2022, his novel Que reviennent ceux qui sont loin was published by Gallimard. On its release, Marine Landrot wrote in Télérama: “Writing that is so clear and elaborate, capable of evoking an emotion close to tears, is a rare thing.” A trained journalist, football fan and cycling enthusiast, Pierre Adrian has been a columnist for the newspaper L’Équipe since 2016. His latest book, Hotel Roma, inspired by the life of the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, has just been published by Gallimard.
Clíona Ní Ríordáin is the O'Donnell Chair of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. A critic and translator, she holds a doctorate from the University of Lyon Lumière, and post-graduate degrees from the Sorbonne, the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and University College Cork. She is the editor and author of many books. Most recently, she published English Language Poets in University College Cork (Palgrave 2020). As a translator, her recent publications include a personal anthology of the poems of Gerry Murphy, Plus loin encore (Circe, 2023) and Maylis Besserie's trilogy of Irish novels (published by Lilliput); the first of which, Yell Sam If You Still Can, was a Financial Times Book of the Year in 2022 and the runner up in the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize 2023. She is an Irish government appointee to the strategy committee of the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.
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