Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in our first-ever virtual meeting of the ILDS. We had participants from at least eight countries! Thanks especially to President Isabelle Keller-Privat for presiding and to the winner of our inaugural William Godshalk Prize for New Durrell Scholarship, Athanasios Dimakis, who delivered an excerpted version of his prize-winning …
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 has been postponed from February 2021 to February 2022. Our Durrell-related scholarly panel has likewise been postponed. The theme for this year’s panel was to have been “Modernist Bodies in Sickness and Health.” We plan to revisit this timely topic when circumstances permit.
In Memory and Celebration of Michael Haag I think that most of our readers will have heard about the untimely death of Michael Haag last January. It took but an instant to decide, as editors, that this edition of The Herald should be put over entirely to our memories and celebrations of Michael and his …
As has been the case for many years (decades!), members of the International Lawrence Durrell Society met in Louisville on February 22-23 for the Literature Since 1900 Conference. We held our annual Board meeting – very productive – and attended the Durrell conference session on Saturday. And as usual, we enjoyed two festive repasts – …
The International Lawrence Durrell Society is pleased to announce the publication of the 42nd volume of The Herald. A pdf version of this issue can be viewed and downloaded by clicking here (2.6 MB). Updated information is included on the ‘On Miracle Ground XXI’ conference to be held from May 28 – May 30, 2020, in Toulouse, …
The International Lawrence Durrell Society invites proposals for papers to be presented at On Miracle Ground XXI from 28-30 May 2020 in Toulouse, France. The theme of the conference will be “Mysticism, Heresies, and Heterotopias in the Works of Lawrence Durrell,” but proposals on any topic related to Durrell and his contemporaries are welcomed. For …
The winners of the 2019 White Mice Poetry Contest have been announced! Thanks to our dedicated judges, Julia Hardie Kaczvinsky, Julie Kane, and Dianne Vipond, who managed to read over 100 submissions. The theme for the 2019 contest was “The Heavens,” in anticipation of the International Lawrence Durrell Society Conference to be held in May …
The Herald, [NS 2] has now been published and can be found by clicking here. In this edition we are especially pleased to have a contribution by Françoise Kestsman-Durrell, as well as a lovely article by Noel J. Guckian, former British Ambassador to Oman, 2005-2011 and his long time relationship with Mas Michel — one time …
The International Lawrence Durrell Society would like to bring attention to an art exhibit that has opened up in Collingwood, Victoria Australia. This exhibit, titled ‘Quartet’, is hosted as part of the Melbourne Rare Book Fair and contains Geoff Todd’s musings on the imagery of Lawrence Durrell’s ‘Alexandria Quartet’, each painting arising from a passage …
