Literary elite to attend Listowel Writers’ Week

DOUBLE Booker Prize winner JM Coetzee will be among the literary luminaries attending Listowel Writers’ Week from May 31 to June 4 next.

The 65-year-old novelist, winner of the Noble Prize for literature in 2003, has drawn from the history and politics of his native South Africa, especially apartheid, for his work.

Also in Listowel will be Booker Prize winner John Banville and Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt, as well as Clive James, Ed Moloney, Lionel Shriver, Rita Ann Higgins, Philip Ó Ceallaigh and Claire Kilroy.