Luisa Roldán (1652-1706), Spanish sculptor of the Baroque Era and the first female sculptor documented in Spain #WomensArt

Paula Modersohn-Becker, Sleeping Child, 1904 #WomensArt

Swedish artist Jeanna Bauck, The Danish Artist Bertha Wegmann Painting a Portrait (c.1879) #WomensArt

Ada Maria Thilén (1852 – 1933), a Finnish painter known for her portraits and landscapes #WomensArt

'The Dreamer' by Annie Swynnerton (1844-1933), UK painter #WomensArt

Photographer Lee Miller, a member of the London War Correspondents Corps, joined the Allied forces during the liberation of Western Europe in 1944 and is now the subject of a film starting Kate Winslet #WomensArt

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

Now this looks entertaining! Dedalus Books Dublin Book Festival dublinbookfestival.com/event/jabber-w…

Jabber- walk with Dara Kavanagh is a literary walk not to be missed as part of the Dublin Festival on 9 November 2024, 12.00-1.00. To book go to Jabber-walk - Dublin Book Festival

Dara Kavanagh's Jabberwock in one of the great Dublin novels of the 21st century with most of the locations from the 1930s still there to be visited so get walking on November 9th at 12.00.

"Despite [its] fragmentary nature . . . HUMAN SADNESS moves at a bracing clip . . . these 'living stories' . . . express deep human truths." Interviews ed. Michael Schapira on the new English translation of Goderdzi Chokheli's 1984 novel (Dedalus Books): tinyurl.com/2kvxc8kk.

Don't miss today's review by Full Stop Interviews editor Michael Schapira on Goderdzi Chokheli's 1984 novel HUMAN SADNESS (Dedalus Books), newly translated into English through the Oxford Georgian Translation Project (Oxford University Russian & East European Studies): tinyurl.com/2kvxc8kk.

It is always good to have an appreciative and thoughtfull review of a book like the latest review of Human Sadness by Goderdzi Chokheli in Full Stop Magazine. tinyurl.com/2kvxc8kk.

There will be an event at the Royal Asiatic Society on 24 October 6.30-8.30 for Human Sadness. Further information to follow shortly.

Next week we will be reading from our Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair winning books just ahead of the submission deadline. Stop by to listen and ask questions about the Novel Fair. Free event but please register. irishwriterscentre.ie/whats-on/from-…

Brendan King's new translation of J.-K. Huysmans' novel En Route which which charts his - and his alter-ego protagonist Durtal's - conversion to Catholicism from Satanism is now available. It is our 12th Huysmans title all translated by Brendan King.

Andrew Crumey won the best first book award in 1995 for Music, ina Foreign Language so thirty years on it would be fitting if Beethoven's Assassins won The Best Book Award.

Congratulations to Andrew Crumey for making the ten -book longlist of the Saltire Fiction Awards with Beethoven's Assassins.

Latest on my website: Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque'sTchanaze, a colourful Mozambican fable about the living dead & good vs evil spirits bit.ly/3XOSAUi tr JethroSoutar & Sandra Tamele from Dedalus Books

'Beethoven's Assassins' by Andrew Crumey Simultaneously a touching human story, a meditation on art and science, and a primer on Beethoven's life and work. published by Dedalus Books and lonflisted for #SaltireBookAwards 2024. 📖 book sample jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/e…