Dec 13, 2011 | Features
Dr Jenny Farrell is a lecturer who lives in Galway but was born in Germany and lived in East Berlin for many years. In this obituary she pays tribute to the writer Christa Wolf who has just died: One of the most important 20th century German women writers, Christa...
Dec 9, 2011 | Latest
Have started ‘Soul Mountain’ by Nobel Literature Laureate Gao Xingjian who is also an established painter. The illustration here is from one of his ink paintings, ‘Recueillement’, roughly translated as ‘meditation’. ‘Soul Mountain’ has been patiently sitting on my...
