Join us for the second edition of the literary series Irish Voices, with the poet, novelist and short story writer Caoilinn Hughes, organized by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies. Caoilinn Hughes is the author of Orchid & the Wasp, which won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary

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Join us for the second series of the free literary event “Irish Voices”, organised by the UZH Swiss Centre of Irish Studies! Lucy Caldwell is the award-winning author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three collections of short stories. Her latest novel, These Days, won the 2023 Walter Scott prize for

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The Zurich James Joyce Foundation is proud to host the event “Authentic Expression: Literature and the Struggle for Freedom” with Sahar Tavakoli. As a publisher, translator and poet in Iran, Sahar Tavakoli experienced directly the pressures and limitations of producing literature under an authoritarian regime. Living in exile in Switzerland since 2023, she has also

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The Zurich James Joyce Foundation is proud to host a reading with the novelist Clare O’Dea (Website: https://clareodea.com/). Moderator: Rafaël Newman. Author of two non-fiction books, two novels and a collection of articles, Clare has been telling stories of Switzerland since she first came to live in the country in 2003. Formerly an Irish Times

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We are pleased to announce that Sam Slote (Trinity College Dublin) will be the inaugural speaker in our new Online Lecture Series. Sam Slote’s lecture “Tales of Brave Ulysses: From Swerve of Censorship to Bend of Copyright” will take place on Friday, March 27, 2026, at 6.30 p.m. Zurich time. In this lecture I will

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Our new reading group “Dubliners in 17 Sessions” (in English) starts on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 6 p.m. For details, please consult the PDF schedule: We also invite you to join our Ulysses and Finnegans Wake reading groups. Further information is available under Reading Groups.

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Die neue deutschsprachige Lesegruppe “Dubliners in 17 Sitzungen” startet am Dientag, 13. Januar 2026, 18 Uhr. Alle weiteren Angaben finden Sie auf dem Flyer, den Sie hier als PDF herunterladen können: Weiterhin laden wir Sie auch herzlich ein, an den Ulysses– und Finnegans Wake-Lesegruppen teilzunehmen. Sie finden alle Angaben unter Lesegruppen.

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We are delighted to announce that Andrew Biswell from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation will be giving an online talk on Anthony Burgess’s A Shorter Ulysses, which will be available from late November 2025 (Galileo Publishers). As stated on the publisher’s website: “This radical reduction of the novel, containing the key episodes which stand at

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Where: Zurich James Joyce Foundation, Augustinergasse 9, 8001 Zurich When: Thursday, December 18, 2025, from 6.30 p.m. More information on this year’s Christmas Event will be made available shortly!

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Von 1901 und 1904 hielt der irische Modernist James Joyce besondere Mo­mente des Alltags fragmentarisch fest: die sogenannten Epiphanies, teils lyrisch, teils dialogisch. Die Form der literarischen Miniatur nutzten der afghanische Schriftsteller Azizullah Ima und der Aargauer Autor Andreas Neeser nun ihrerseits   für einen Dialog über Themen, die bewegen: zwischen­menschliche Be­ziehun­gen, politische und philo­so­phische Grenzziehungen,

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