Author and Poet PADRAIG ROONEY

A co-presentation with the Carson McCullers Center

Irish author and poet PADRAIG ROONEY will present his book about Annemarie Schwarzenbach, the famed (some might say infamous) writer and photographer whose work challenged the Nazi regime.

In his biography Rebel Angel: The Life and Times of Annemarie Schwarzenbach, author Rooney explores the short but impassioned life of its title subject whose work as a writer and photographer was as uncompromising and adventurous as her personal life. Stories abound about the intermixing of her professional and personal lives which included her long and tortured relationship with Carson McCullers and a host of others in society.

This special event is presented in cooperation with the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians at Columbus State University. Copies of Rebel Angel will be available for purchase.

Padraig Rooney was born in Ireland and lives in the Pyrenées Orientales in France. He was a teacher of English literature in international schools for many decades and is an award-winning poet. The Gilded Chalet: Travels in Literary Switzerland was described in the TLS as “Brilliant. Thoroughly absorbing.” His articles have appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books, The Scotsman and The New European. 

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