The View Over the Horizon: Gerbrand Bakker & Garrett Carr
Two outstanding storytellers discuss the ties that create family and community, the role of the landscape in their fiction, and writing male characters who are cut off from their emotions.
“As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.” Ernest Hemingway
Two outstanding storytellers discuss the ties that create family and community, the role of the landscape in their fiction, and writing male characters who are cut off from their emotions.
In acclaimed Dutch writer Gerbrand Bakker’s new novel The Hairdresser’s Son, Cornelis leaves when his wife tells him she is pregnant. A day later, he is dead. As his adult son probes the mystery of his father’s life, a deeply humane portrait of loneliness emerges. Gerbrand Bakker’s awards include the Dublin Literary Award for The Twin, the English translation of his novel Boven is het stil.
Garrett Carr’s debut novel is a big story told in the voice of a small community. In The Boy From the Sea, a baby found abandoned on the beach grows into a restless boy trying to find his place in the world. Garrett Carr has published three YA novels and one work of non-fiction, The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border.
In conversation with author and critic Neil Hegarty.
Presented with support of the Dublin Literary Award / Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
Duration: 1 hour