Coming to a podcast player near you!!
 

This Thursday, the 55^th Episode of the EFACIS Irish Itinerary Podcast will air, featuring renowned author Emilie Pine in conversation with Michelle Witen. 
 

Emilie Pine is author of the bestselling essay collection, Notes to Self, which won the 2018 An Post Irish Book of the Year award and has been translated into 16 languages. Her debut novel, Ruth & Pen is the winner of the 2023 Kate O’Brien First Novel Award. 
 

In her conversation with Michelle Witen, Emilie Pine talks about her novel Ruth & Pen (2022). She discusses the city as an urban, but also internal landscape; the infertility journey depicted in the novel and how she wanted to give the male character a space and a voice in this; the intertwining of embodiment and displacement; the difficulty of finding your voice and of listening; neurodivergence in narrative; intertexts in Ruth & Pen; and how her academic interests inflect her writing.
 

The podcast is available here: https://www.efacis.eu/podcast