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The
Barnard Forum on Migration Presents Reading and Discussion
with Award-Winning Author Roddy Doyle
 New
York, NY – Acclaimed author Roddy Doyle will be reading
selections from his forthcoming novel, Oh, Play That Thing,
as well as some short pieces from the multi-cultural paper
Metro Eirann, published monthly in Dublin, and the short
story "Recuperation" at Barnard College. The event
will take place on Tuesday, March 9, at 7 p.m. in the James
Room, Barnard Hall, at 117th Street and Broadway.
Roddy Doyle was born in 1958 in Dublin. He has written five
works of fiction, including The Commitments, The Snapper,
The Van (1991 Booker Prize Finalist), Paddy Clarke
Ha Ha Ha (1993 Booker Prize Winner), and the acclaimed
best sellers, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors and A
Star Called Henry. Doyle has also written one work of
non-fiction, Rory and Ita. His next novel, Oh, Play
That Thing, will be published in September 2004.
Doyle has also written for the stage and the screen, including
the plays Brownbread, War, Guess Who’s Coming for
the Dinner, and several films adaptations of his novels.
In addition, he has written several children’s books,
including The Giggler Treatment and Rover Saves
Christmas and has contributed to various publications
including The New Yorker. Doyle lives in Dublin with
his wife and is currently a Visiting Professor of English
at Barnard College.
The Barnard Forum on Migration is a series of seminars, lectures,
and readings that explore issues connected to the movement
of people from one part of the world to another. Lectures
offered through the Forum on Migration are supported by a
bequest establishing the Weiss International Fellowship Fund
to bring distinguished scholars in literature and the arts
to Barnard. The Forum on Migration is being organized by Caryl
Phillips, the Henry R. Luce Professor of Migration and Social
Order, who joined the Barnard faculty in the fall of 1998
as a member of the English department. The College is grateful
to the Henry R. Luce Foundation for its support of the distinguished
professorship. Forum on Migration events are free and open
to the public.
For more information, please call the Forum on Migration at
212-854-3577, or email mhand@barnard.edu
Contact:
Petra Tuomi, Barnard Public Affairs, 212-854-7907.
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