Pulitzer winner Proulx captivates West Cork literati

RECLUSIVE author Annie Proulx arrived in Ireland yesterday to open a literary festival and will spend the next few days in west Cork researching a new book.

The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, both of which were adapted as award-winning films, was the guest of honour at the West Cork Literary Festival’s opening.

The publicity-shy author, who lives most of the year in remote Wyoming and some months in a home perched above a small cove in northern Newfoundland, rarely agrees to attend such public events.