Venue: The Courthouse - Meath County Council Stage
In his astonishing award-winning memoir The Speckled People, Hugo Hamilton attempted to come to terms with familial oppression and dysfunction, a sense of dislocation, and the perils of multilingualism (English, German, Irish). In his latest novel, Dublin Palms, he returns to those themes in fictional form. The central character of his new novel finds himself grappling with the limits of language when he returns to Dublin from Berlin to set up home with his partner Helen and their two children. Hugo Hamilton is the author of nine novels, two memoirs and a collection of short stories. His work has won numerous national and international prizes, including the 1992 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and the 2003 French Prix Femina Étranger.
