Programme Isla Festival 2013 -The Power of Words

This festival is organised by the Instituto Cervantes. See link here 

Friday, 18th October 2013

3.30pm

Doors open

4pm - 4.45pm

Official opening speech by Irish writer John Banville

Remembering Seamus Heaney: Reading of sonnets by actor Tom Hickey

5pm - 6.15pm

Poetry as a Calling: Profession or Possession?

Chaired by: Lorna Shaughnessy (NUI Galway)

Authors

• René Vázquez Díaz (Cuba)
• Daniel Freidemberg (Argentina)
• Tomás Mac Síomóin (Ireland)

6.30pm - 7.15pm

Today we are reading with

Introduced by: Bill Richardson (NUI Galway)

Authors

• Daniel Freidemberg (Argentina)
• Tomás Mac Síomóin (Ireland)
• Paula Meehan (Ireland)
• Kirmen Uribe (Spain)
• Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain)

7.30pm

Wine Reception

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Saturday 19th October 2013

11.30am - 12.45pm

Dublin and Other Cities of Literature

Chaired by: Ciaran Cosgrove (Trinity College Dublin)

Authors

• John Banville (Ireland)
• Eileen Battersby (United States)
• Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain)

12.45pm- 2.00pm

Break

2.00pm - 3.15pm

The Novel, Memory and Resistance

Chaired by: Cara Levey (University College Cork)

Authors

• John Boyne (Ireland)
• Julio Espinosa (Chile)
• Kirmen Uribe (Spain)

3.30pm - 4.15pm

Today we are reading with

Introduced by: Carmen Sanjulián (Instituto Cervantes)

Authors

• John Banville (Ireland)
• Eilleen Battersby (United States)
• John Boyne (Ireland)
• Álvaro Enrigue (Mexico)
• María Tena (Spain)

4.30pm - 5.45pm

Hispanic Power

Chaired by: Catherine Leen (NUI Maynooth)

Authors

• Álvaro Enrigue (Mexico)
• María Tena (Spain)
• Fernando Sánchez Dragó (Spain)

6.00pm - 7.10pm

Film screening: «Antonio Machado: Destierro y muerte de un poeta»

Documentary on Antonio Machado
2005 (Spain).66 min.
In Spanish + English subtitles

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Sunday, 20th October 2013

11.00am - 12.30pm

A Question of Genres

Chaired by: Jean Philippe Imbert (Dublin City University)

Authors

• Marina Carr (Ireland)
• Susana Cella (Argentina)
• Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Spain)

12.45pm -13.30pm

Today we are reading with

Introduced by: Ciaran Carthy 

Authors

• René Vázquez Díaz (Cuba)
• Susana Cella (Argentina)
• Marina Carr (Ireland) ´
• Julio Espinosa (Chile)
• Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón (Spain)
• Fernando Sánchez Dragó (Spa