The 2012 Dublin Writers Festival will take place from 4th – 10th June.

Dublin Writers Festival, Ireland’s premier literary event, gathers the finest writers in the world to debate, provoke , delight and enthral. Described by the press as “boasting a stunning array of top international literary talent” and “the country’s most successful and easily the best annual literary event”, Dublin Writers Festival line-up is sure to impress. With readings, discussions, debates,workshops, performance and screenings, the festival creates a hotbed of ideas. Whether it’s the mix poets, writers of fiction and non-fiction, lyricists, playwrights and screenwriters, Dublin Writers Festival brings new faces and house-hold names together in ways that suprise and inspire. Children’s fiction is well represented and we are spoilt for choice with the calibre of Irish language writers. Come celebrate many specially commissioned events in the City of Words.


With Richard Boyd Barrett, Eileen Battersby, Greg Baxter, Jim Berkeley, Lucy Caldwell, Arno Camenisch, Lorcan Collins, Wendy Cope, Rachel Cusk, Selma Dabbagh, Richard Dawkins, Patrick de Witt, James Fearnley, Leontia Flynn, Kit Fryatt, Grant Gee, Mark Granier, Mark Haddon, Chad Harbach, Tony Harrison, Christine Dwyer Hickey, Colm Keegan, Maritta Lintunen, Donal McLaughlin, Catherine Morris, Éilís Ní Anluain, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin, Macdara Ó Graham, Darach Ó Scolai, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Dónal O’Connor, Rebecca O’Connor, Dennis O’Driscoll, Christopher Paolini, Tim Parks, Kevin Power, Billy Ramsell, Keith Ridgway, Josh Ritter, Gabriel Rosenstock, Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya, Mike Scott, W.G. Sebald, Rachel Seiffert, Peter Sirr, Bryan & Mary Talbot, Dubravka Ugrešić, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ed Vulliamy.