10-26 May
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Weather With You
Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Abir Mukherjee & Derek Owusu
Three writers reflect on the atmospheric pressure of the year they’ve just had in Weather With You – a series of written commissions and podcasts that address what it means to be a writer today, and why we write.
Derek Owusu is a writer, poet and podcaster whose debut novel, That Reminds Me, won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020. Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s debut book. Thin Places, is a mixture of memoir, nature writing and history set in Ireland.
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This event is part of the City of Literature programme, in partnership with National Centre for Writing.
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Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in 1983, in Derry-Londonderry at the border between the North and South of Ireland. She read English Literature and Classical Civilisation at Trinity College Dublin and trained as a Waldorf teacher in Edinburgh. She taught in Edinburgh and Bristol, before returning to Ireland in her early thirties. She writes about nature, literature and place for the Irish Times, Dublin Review of Books, Caught by the River and others. She now lives in a railway cottage in the very heart of Ireland. Thin Places is her first book.
Abir Mukherjee
Abir Mukherjee is the Times bestselling author of the Sam Wyndham series of crime novels set in Raj era India. His debut, A Rising Man, won the CWA Endeavour Dagger for best historical crime novel of 2017 and was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar for best novel. His second novel, A Necessary Evil, won the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing and was a Zoe Ball Book Club pick. His third novel, Smoke and Ashes, was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of the 100 Best Crime & Thriller Novels since 1945. Abir grew up in Scotland and now lives in London with his wife and two sons.
Derek Owusu
Derek Owusu is a writer, poet and podcaster from north London. He discovered his passion for literature at the age of twenty-three while studying exercise science at university. Unable to afford a change of degree, Derek began reading voraciously and sneaking into English Literature lectures at the University of Manchester. Derek edited and contributed to Safe: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space. That Reminds Me, his first solo work, won the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020.
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Age guidance: Suitable for ages 16+.
Accessibility: Captions will be available
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Monday
24 May
11:00 am
Derek Owusu image © Josima Senior
Kerri ní Dochartaigh image © Manus Kenny
Part of Open Doors, a series of original commissions and open submissions from the National Centre for Writing. Supported by Arts Council England’s Ambition for Excellence fund.
City of Literature is a Norfolk & Norwich Festival and National Centre for Writing presentation, programmed by National Centre for Writing