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Pour en finir avec une histoire de la littérature qui invisibilise et minorise les textes d’autrices et donc nuit à la littérature elle-même, chaque mois, les Parleuses organisent une séance de bouche à oreilles pour propager le matrimoine littéraire. Elles invitent une autrice contemporaine à se faire passeuse de l’œuvre d’une autrice du matrimoine. Chaque séance s’articule autour d’un atelier d’écriture, d’un atelier de lecture par arpentage et d’une performance inédite. Pour cette 25e séance, l’autrice Amandine Dhée imagine une séance dédiée à Nuala O'Faolain. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Pour en finir avec une histoire de la littérature qui invisibilise et minorise les textes d’autrices et donc nuit à la littérature elle-même, chaque mois, les Parleuses organisent une séance de bouche à oreilles pour propager le matrimoine littéraire. Elles invitent une autrice contemporaine à se faire passeuse de l’œuvre d’une autrice du matrimoine. Chaque séance s’articule autour d’un atelier d’écriture, d’un atelier de lecture par arpentage et d’une performance inédite. Pour cette 25e séance, l’autrice Amandine Dhée imagine une séance dédiée à Nuala O'Faolain. Voir <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Acast.com/privacy</a> pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Nuala O'Faolain (1940-2008) par Amandine Dhée, séance 25 !

Joining John and Andy this week is novelist and host of the books podcast Sentimental Garbage, Caroline O'Donoghue (Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, All Our Hidden Gifts). We are discussing Nuala O'Faolain's revelatory memoir Are You Somebody? (1996), the original publication of which caused a sensation in her native Ireland. The book went on to top the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks; it still has the power to astonish. Also in this episode Andy has been exploring John Higgs's new book William Blake Vs The World and John is moved by Consumed: A Sister's Tale, the family memoir of Arifa Akbar, a former guest on Backlisted.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)10:08 - William Blake Vs The World by John Higgs14:44 - Consumed: A Sister's Tale by Arifa Akbar20:33 - Are You Somebody by Nuala O'Faolain* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit www.backlisted.fm*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at www.patreon.com/backlisted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining John and Andy this week is novelist and host of the books podcast Sentimental Garbage, Caroline O'Donoghue (Promising Young Women, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, All Our Hidden Gifts). We are discussing Nuala O'Faolain's revelatory memoir Are You Somebody? (1996), the original publication of which caused a sensation in her native Ireland. The book went on to top the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks; it still has the power to astonish. Also in this episode Andy has been exploring John Higgs's new book William Blake Vs The World and John is moved by Consumed: A Sister's Tale, the family memoir of Arifa Akbar, a former guest on Backlisted.Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)10:08 - William Blake Vs The World by John Higgs14:44 - Consumed: A Sister's Tale by Arifa Akbar20:33 - Are You Somebody by Nuala O'Faolain* To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at <a href="http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">uk.bookshop.org/shop/backlisted</a> where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops.* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit <a href="http://www.backlisted.fm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.backlisted.fm</a>*If you'd like to support the show, listen without adverts, receive the show early and with extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at <a href="http://www.patreon.com/backlisted" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.patreon.com/backlisted</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain

The wonderfully funny Irish journalist was best known for her candid memoir Are You Somebody? — about a woman who enjoyed career success but found herself lonely and insecure in her 50s. O'Faolain spoke to Eleanor on stage in Victoria in 2003. She died in 2008.

Nuala O'Faolain on going from nobody to somebody, maybe