Banipal 68 – Short Stories Hilda DominCovid 19 is still with us, spreading its deathly virus, killing thousands, keeping us in our homes, making us keep our distance wherever we go, wearing masks whenever we might get within a metre or so of another person, and creating virtual, digital events. Over the months it has changed the world, and till now its hard to see an end to it. All our lives are being transformed by it. On 8 April, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award announced its 2020 winners
From plunging cat burglars
an attempt to get to grips with the oddities and strangeness of the white world
as well as one character’s passion for recreational lock-picking
After living in Australia for nine years
film maker and
Famous soap opera scriptwriter
Lubonja was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for "agitation and propaganda" after police found his diaries
The Attitudes compiles multitudes
Macdara WoodsM was born in Dublin in 1942 and has published a number of collections with the Dedalus Press including his Selected Poems (1996)
An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets out that she’s had sex with her thirty-something teacher
located somewhere ‘between Stockholm Street and Syndrome Way’
Leon is such an incredible performer – all heart and agitation and countless voices – the worry was always that we would struggle to stick him to the page
