Louise Nealon is a writer from Co Kildare. In 2017, she won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and was the recipient of the Francis Ledwidge Creative Writing Award. She has been published in The Irish Times, Southword and The Open Ear.
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Meeting Mark Wingrave: “I’m attracted to what I don’t know”
I came into contact with the artist Mark Wingrave through our shared interest in the work of Ukrainian poet Olga Bragina. Reading a couple...
Laurence Hutchman – Lost Language
These photo albums span the decades:
wartime, marriage, early years in Canada.
The sounds of Dutch swell within me.
I read a language I knew and forgot—
“J’s”...
Giuseppe Genna – Big Red Mother
Guido Lopez, an interim detective at the Milan central police department, is playing tennis with a stranger. Immediately after, a huge explosion shakes his...
Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato [A Clerk’s Tale]
Storia di un impiegato, the sixth studio LP by Fabrizio De André, written with Giuseppe Bentivoglio and Nicola Piovani, came out in 1973. Like...
Marguerite Duras – Blue Eyes, Black Hair
The indefiniteness of love
Emotions that chase each other on a stage made of nothing. Gestures told with great elegance and care, without a defined...