Conversations from the Cullman Center: Owen Sheers and Belinda McKeon

Owen Sheers talks with Belinda McKeon about his new novel, I Saw a Man, an emotional suspense story about, among other things, love, loss, secrets, and the transformative power of words.  In her New York Times review of the book, Sarah Lyall praised the “artfulness and exquisite narrative control” of the “prodigiously talented” Mr. Sheers.

 Owen Sheers, an award-winning author, poet, and playwright, has published two poetry collections, The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill, which won a Somerset Maugham Award. His non-fiction narrative set in Zimbabwe, The Dust Diaries,  won the Welsh Book of the Year Award in 2005. Resistance, his first novel, has been translated into ten languages.  Currently Professor in Creativity at Swansea University in Wales, Sheers was a Fellow at the Cullman Center in 2007-2008.

Belinda McKeon's first novel, Solace, won the 2011 Faber Prize and was voted Irish Book of the Year. Her second novel, Tender, will be published in the US in February 2016. Her essays and journalism have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Guardian, and A Public Space.   She has had plays produced in Dublin and New York, and is currently under commission to the Abbey Theatre. She is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at Rutgers University.  

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