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Interview with Glenn Patterson |
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Author Glenn Patterson speaks to Roland Gulliver |
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As part of Lost and Found, our year long celebration of Northern Ireland arts in Belgium, we invited Belfast author Glenn Patterson to the Grand Hotel Europe literary festival. Glenn read at the opening night of the festival on a panel of 10 international writers and we conducted a public interview with him the next morning at Passa Porta. You can listen to the interview by clicking on the links below.
Glenn read from his latest novel That Which Was, then spoke to our arts manager Roland Gulliver. Before a question and answer session Glenn read from a new novel set in Japan, Third Party. Click on the links to listen:
1. Introduction by Roland Gulliver - 1:33 (MP3 367KB)
2. Glenn Patterson introduces That Which Was - 2:54 (MP3 681KB)
3. Glenn reads from That Which Was - 7:40 (MP3 1.8MB)
4. Glenn Patterson speaks to Roland Gulliver - 26:00 (MP3 6MB)
5. Glenn reads from new work: Third Party - 3:45 (MP3 880KB)
Many thanks to Passa Porta, who recorded the interview, and to Glenn for coming over and agreeing to have the interview published on our website.
Glenn Patterson is the author of six novels, Burning Your Own (1988), Fat Lad (1992), Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain (1995), The International (1999), Number 5 (2003) and That Which Was (2004). A former writing fellow at the University of East Anglia and writer-in-residence at the University College Cork and Queen's University Belfast, he has also worked as a TV arts' show presenter and film-maker. |
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