This event brings together two writers whose experimental take on narrative is pushing ction in exciting new directions. Claire-Louise Bennett won the inaugural White Review Short Story Prize in 2013 and writes both ction and creative non- ction. Her debut collection of stories, Pond, has just been published. Christine Montalbetti is a professor of literature at the University of Paris and the author of several scholarly works on narrative. Her playful and digressive tales like Western (in which the story of a mysterious gunslinger is continually sidetracked by the viewpoint of passing ants) are nally appearing in English, con rming her reputation as one of the most engaging experimental writers working today.

Presented in association with the Embassy of France in Ireland.