29/08/2026
Sheila Armstrong is a writer from the north-west of Ireland. She is the author of How To Gut A Fish, a collection of short stories, and two novels, Falling Animals and The Red Mouth.
Her work has been translated into over ten languages and nominated for the Irish Book Awards, the Society of Authors Awards, the Kate O’Brien Award, the Edge Hill Prize, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the European Union Prize for Literature.
Laetitia Devaux is a French translator working from English into French. She studied French and English literature in Paris and Dublin. Since then – for the past 30 years – she has cultivated her passion for Irish life, literature, and pubs.
She is the French translator of Irish writers such as Sebastian Barry, Sally Rooney, and Eimear McBride. Over the past few years, she has also begun scouting for new literary voices in Ireland. As a result, she now translates Anne Walsh Donnelly, Louise Hegarty, Mark Gyves, and Catherine Prasifka, all of whom are debut novelists. And, of course, Sheila Armstrong, with whom she will be in conversation at the festival.
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