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New Cúirt director Sasha has broad literary remit

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Sasha de Buyl-Pisco.

Developing new audiences throughout the entire year is one of the aims of the newly-appointed Director of the Cúirt Festival of Literature Sasha de Buyl-Pisco, who is also taking up the new post of Head of Literature at Galway Arts Centre, which runs Cúirt.

Sasha, from West Cork, currently lives in Scotland, where she programmed Book Week Scotland for several years, having started with the annual event as an administrator. She also curated Young Adult and LGBT strand of the Glasgow Aye Write Book Festival.

Most recently, the writer and illustrator, whose work has featured in the collection Nasty Women and on several BBC Scotland projects, served as manager of Scottish Books International. That organisation, dedicated to the international promotion of the country’s books, writers, festivals and organisations, was launched by Publishing Scotland and the Edinburgh International Book Festival last year.

Sasha, who has an MA in English and Film Studies from the University of St Andrews, will be working remotely until January when she will move to Galway permanently.

She held her first meeting with the Cúirt programming committee this week – they have already begun planning for next year’s event which will take place in April.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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