Damian Barr: You Will Be Safe Here
SUNDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
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Set in South Africa, in 1901 and 2010, You Will Be Safe Here is a novel about masculinity and violence, both individual and cultural. It is wise, gripping and heartbreaking. Damian Barr will discuss the book in conversation with Malachy Tallack.
Damian Barr Damian Barr is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist. His memoir, Maggie & Me, won Stonewall Writer of the Year and was named Sunday Times Memoir of the Year. His debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, was shortlisted for six major awards and a named a Book of the Year in the Observer, Irish Times and The Times. He has written columns for The
Sun
20.30 Mareel
Times, Sunday Times and Big Issue and hosted Front Row on BBC Radio 4. Damian brought books back to television with ‘The Big Scottish Book Club’, he also hosts ‘Shelf Isolation’ on the BBC. In 2020 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and gained his PhD in Creative Writing. He created the Literary Salon in 2008.
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