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Adania Shibli
Cork Midsummer Festival & University College Cork

On Repetition & Absence

Adania Shibli

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The award-winning Palestinian author of Minor Detail, Adania Shibli delivers an unmissable keynote lecture on repetition and the absence of words.

A profound speaker on war, memory, identity, language and aesthetics, Shibli draws on her work as a novelist and essayist to explore the relationship between narrative, silence and power. Her writing spans novels, plays, short stories and essays, and engages deeply with questions of violence, justice and representation.

Minor Detail was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature, longlisted for the International Booker Prize, and awarded the LiBeraturpreis. Shibli has also received the Qattan Young Writer’s Award twice and continues to teach and research in different universities across Europe, as well as at Birzeit University, Palestine (2012-2018), while from 2022–2025 she acted a a co-curator of the Bergen Assembly 2025, Bergen, Norway.

Literature programme supported by Cork Midsummer Festival and University College Cork – partnering to create a unique strand of events that feature cross artform collaborations, performance and conversation

  1. 13 June

  2. 4pm

    €18 / €15

  3. The Glucksman View map
  4. 60 mins

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