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The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film. He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte Mendelsohn and Australian writer Brian Castro.

The Bookshelf · Australian Broadcasting Corporation

April 18, 202554m 0s

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Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child.

Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film.

He also appeared onstage at AWW with Kate and Cassie, for a special edition of the Bookshelf on books, reading, and influences, with English writer Charlotte Mendelsohn and Australian writer Brian Castro.

Topics

booksliteratureIrish fiction1960sNiall WilliamsKate EvansAdelaide Writers WeekWriters FestivalIreland