Book review: Lost Between: Writings of Displacement

In 2010, the novelist Catherine Dunne, then chairperson of the Irish Writers’ Centre met the Italian writer Federica Sgaggio.

The two felt it would benefit Italian and Irish writers to meet and to share and promote their work. They gained support and sponsorship, and The Italo-Irish Literature Exchange was born.

Three exchanges have since taken place; the latest, in 2014, when seven Irish writers met their Italian counterparts in Sant’Agata de’Goti near Naples.