Ferdia Lennon
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We are delighted to present an evening with Ferdia Lennon to discuss his debut novel Glorious Exploits on Friday 31st January at 6.30pm. Glorious Exploits has was the 2024 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction and is shortlisted for 2024’s Nero Debut Fiction Book Award. Ferdia will be here to read and discuss his book and take questions from the audience. Admission is free but booking is essential. Scroll to the bottom of this page to reserve a place.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Ferdia Lennon was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and Libyan father. He holds a BA in History and Classics from University College Dublin and an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia. His short stories have appeared in publications such as the Irish Times and the Stinging Fly. In 2019 and 2021, he received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. After spending many years in Paris, he now lives in Norwich with his wife and son. Glorious Exploits is his debut novel.
PRAISE FOR GLORIOUS EXPLOITS:
‘Bold and totally unexpected, I loved this book. A brilliant novel about friendship, the healing power of art, and why we must fight for our dreams.’ – DOUGLAS STUART
‘In At Swims-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien gave us cowboys riding through Dublin. Now, Ferdia Lennon gives us modern-day Dubliners living among the ancient Greeks. This is a very special, very clever, very entertaining novel’ – RODDY DOYLE
‘With all the blunt humanity of Roddy Doyle, Glorious Exploits is a vividly conjured vision of the past. Madly ambitious, cathartic like all great tragedy, but shockingly funny too, Ferdia Lennon’s outstandingly original début is just glorious’ – EMMA DONOGHUE
