Author Reading: Lucy Caldwell in Flensburg!

The event is completely booked! If you would like to be put on the waiting list, please email michelle.witen-TextEinschliesslichBindestricheBitteEntfernen-@uni-flensburg.de.

We are delighted to announce that renowned Northern Irish author, Lucy Caldwell, will be visiting us in Flensburg as part of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary and will be doing a reading from her work on Nov 27!  

🎤 Author reading followed by Q&A

🗓️ Nov 27

⏰ 18:30 CET 

📍 ECMI (Schiffbrücke 12, 24939 Flensburg)

✍️ Register by Nov 20 => the event is booked but if you would like to join the waiting list, please email michelle.witen@uni-flensburg.de

This reading is part of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary and has been generously sponsored by Culture Ireland. Lucy’s tour will include stops in Potsdam, Hamburg, Kiel, Flensburg, and Aarhus! You are warmly invited to join us in Flensburg on Thursday, November 27 at 18:30 at the European Centre for Minority Issues building (Schiffbrücke 12, 24939 Flensburg). 

Copies of Lucy's work will be available for purchase from our book table (cash only!). The reading will be followed by a Q&A as well as a small drinks reception.

Lucy Caldwell was born in Belfast. She is the author of four novels, most recently These Days, which won the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, and three collections of short stories, Multitudes, Intimacies and Openings, with her fourth, Devotions, to be published in spring 2026. She is also the author of several stage plays and radio dramas and is the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories.

Her writing has received numerous awards, including the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 2018 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2021 she won the BBC National Short Story Award for “All the People Were Mean and Bad” and in 2022 she was the recipient of the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. 

For more information contact Michelle Witen (michelle.witen@uni-flensburg.de).