Date: Thursday 28 May
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Irish Writers Centre, 19
Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Fee: €18 / €15 IWC Members
Booking via Eventbrite
Dennis Lehane, novelist, screenwriter
and writer-producer, is set to release his latest novel World Gone
By (Little, Brown) and will be joining us at the Centre to talk
about this latest endeavour, writing for print and screen and will reveal all
about the much discussed Love/Hate US adaptation.
Dennis Lehane grew up in Boston. His
novels have been translated into more than 30 languages and have become
international bestsellers and include Mystic River, Gone
Baby Gone, Darkness Take My Hand and Moonlight
Mile. His most recent work World Gone By, a psychologically
and morally complex novel set in World War II was published March 2015. Three
of his novels - Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone and Shutter
Island - have been adapted into award-winning films.
Lehane was a staff writer on the
acclaimed HBO series The Wire and is a writer-producer
on the fourth season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. His filmThe
Drop features James Gandolfini in his last movie role. It has recently
been reported in the press that Dennis has been approached to adapt the Irish
crime drama Love/Hate for a US cable television
network.
Dennis will be interviewed by writer
and playwright Declan Hughes.
