European Fiction in Translation with Donal McLaughlin CCA Tue 18 August 2015
Scottish Writers’ Centre
European Fiction in Translation with Donal McLaughlin
CCA
Tue 18 August 2015
7pm, Free and unticketed, Clubroom
Ages 18+

Donal McLaughlin is a founding member of the Scottish Writers’ Centre, and is responsible for international liaison. His first short story collection – An Allergic Reaction to National Anthems & Other Stories (2009) – was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Short Story Award, and nominated for the EIBF Readers’ Best First Book Award. Donal featured in Best European Fiction 2012 (Dalkey Archive), both as a writer and a translator. His second collection of stories, Beheading the Virgin Mary, was published by Dalkey in 2014. Donal’s translation work includes over one hundred writers for the New Swiss Writing anthologies (2008-2011). He is the English voice of Urs Widmer.
This is a free event, open to all.
Centre for Contemporary Arts
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow G2 3JD
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