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European Book Club: Sara Baume
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From January to July 2022, this year’s season Young Voices of the European Book Club will be presented as a series of seven events.
On Thursday, 7 July 2022, Culture Ireland will host a discussion with Sara Baume on her award winning book Spill Simmer Falter Wither. Moderated by RTE’s Zbyszek Zalinski, this event marks the finale of EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club 2022.
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story, a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship that spans the four seasons echoed in the novel’s title. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, Baume’s debut captures the incremental destructive essence of loneliness, and confirms the talent so emphatically acknowledged by the Davy Byrnes Award jury. The novel was also shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, longlisted for the Warwick Prize and winner of the Rooney Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
Sara Baume’s debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Rooney Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and has been widely translated. Her second novel, A Line Made by Walking, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and her first non-fiction book, handiwork, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her third novel, Seven Steeples, was published in spring 2022.
On Thursday, 7 July 2022, Culture Ireland will host a discussion with Sara Baume on her award winning book Spill Simmer Falter Wither. Moderated by RTE’s Zbyszek Zalinski, this event marks the finale of EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club 2022.
Free Registration
About the Book
Two misfits – one an eccentric loner and the other a one-eyed dog – forge an unlikely relationship. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast – and quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. But as their friendship grows, they are driven away by a community that perceives menace where there is only mishap.Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story, a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship that spans the four seasons echoed in the novel’s title. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, Baume’s debut captures the incremental destructive essence of loneliness, and confirms the talent so emphatically acknowledged by the Davy Byrnes Award jury. The novel was also shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, longlisted for the Warwick Prize and winner of the Rooney Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
About the Author
Sara Baume was born in Lancashire and grew up in County Cork. She studied fine art and creative writing and her short fiction has been published in journals such as The Stinging Fly magazine and the Dublin Review. She is based in West Cork where she works also as a visual artist.Sara Baume’s debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Rooney Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and has been widely translated. Her second novel, A Line Made by Walking, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and her first non-fiction book, handiwork, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her third novel, Seven Steeples, was published in spring 2022.