Readings
Sharon Ní Bheoláin reads Monique Schwitter

"Goldfish Memory" at at Words on the Street/European Literature Night

Wed, 18.05.2016
6:30 PM - 21:00 Council Chamber, City Hall

In Dublin well known Irish people will read contemporary writing from twelve European countries in twelve venues, many of which are unusual and not normally easily accessible to the public. The twelve participating countries will each be represented by a short translated piece of a novel, poem or short story which will be read every 30 minutes so people can wander from venue to venue taking in readings from Austria, the Czeck Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain & the UK. The first reading in each venue starts at 6.30pm and is repeated every half hour with the final reading at 9pm.
This year the readings will take place in the Temple Bar area.

Sharon Ní Bheoláin will read from "Goldfish Memory". She is best known as co-anchor of RTÉ's flagship programme Six One News and presenter of RTÉ’s Leaders' Questions and News Now. Before joining Six One Sharon reported and presented across all of RTÉ’s main television bulletins and was the recipient of a Law Society of Ireland Justice Media Award for a feature broadcast on Prime Time. In 2004 she fronted RTÉ’s learning Irish series ‘Turas Teanga’ and began her career in reading Nuacht. She is a passionate advocate of animal welfare and an Ambassador for N.G.O ActionAid promoting education rights for girls in developing countries.

Monique Schwitter was born in 1972 in Zurich and lives and works since 2005 in Hamburg. She studied acting and directing in Salzburg and went on to perform in Zurich, Frankfurt, Graz and Hamburg.
In 2004 she was awarded the Hermann-Lenz-Stipendium. For her first volume of short stories, Wenn's schneit beim Krokodil (When It Snows at the Crocodile's), she was awarded the 2006 Robert Walser Prize for the best literary debut of the year and the promotional award of the Swiss Schillerstiftung. In 2008 she published her novel Ohren haben keine Lider (Ears Have No Lids) and the play Himmels-W, in 2011 Goldfischgedächtnis (Goldfish Memory), a collection of short stories.

Words on the Street is a Dublin UNESCO City of Literature project in partnership with, among others, the Goethe-Institut Irland.