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Anne Devlin, Conversation and Reading
21 September 2024 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
£8
Writer and playwright Anne Devlin has worked in theatre, television and radio. She began writing in the library in Freiburg in 1976, with an account of her experiences as a Catholic teacher in a Protestant school. Eight years later, this would be the screenplay for The Venus De Milo Instead, directed by Danny Boyle, whom she first met at the Royal Court, where her first stage play was produced in 1985. Ourselves Alone (Faber) was nominated for an Oliver Award and was followed by After Easter for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her breakthrough work with the BBC was The Long March for Radio 4, and later for television. She adapted her short story “Naming the Name” as a screenplay; film adaptations include The Rainbow, and Wuthering Heights for Paramount Pictures. In 2008, she returned to live in Belfast, where she has continued to write for radio. The Apparitions, a collection of short stories published by Arden House, is her most recent work. She is currently writing a memoir. In this event, she will discuss her life and work in conversation with Fiona Lynch, and then give a reading of selected pieces.