The International Lawrence Durrell Society invites paper proposals for a session at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900 to be held on 24-26 February 2022. The theme for the session is “’Everything miasmic’: Modernist Bodies in Sickness and Health.” Deadline for submission of proposals is 3 September 2021. For further information, click here. …
On Miracle Ground XXI, the bi-annual conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, originally scheduled for 2020, has been re-scheduled for June 9-11, 2022 in Toulouse, France. Theme for the conference is “Mysticisms, Heresies, and Heterotopias in the Works of Lawrence Durrell.” To read the call for papers, click here. In you would like to apply …
The 2021 White Mice Poetry Contest is now open! Submissions of 1-3 unpublished poems are welcomed on the theme of “History Revisited.” There is no submission fee. Winners receive on-line and print publication and an invitation to read at a special poetry session at the ILDS Conference in Toulouse, France in June 2022. For more …
Faber and Faber, Lawrence Durrell’s London publishers from the 1930’s until his death, are in the process of re-publishing his Faber back-catalogue. Now available are Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive and Clea, all with new Introductions by Andre Aciman, Alaa Al Aswany, William Boyd, and Elif Shafak. Click here for the press release for Justine. Click here for …
The April 2021 issue of The Herald, Volume 46, is now available! This issue features perspectives and meditations on the Greek island of Corfu so memorably evoked by Lawrence Durrell in Prospero’s Cell and other works. Also included are gorgeous photographs of natural and man-made landmarks of the island. Click here to enjoy.
On Friday, February 5, Durrellians from seven different countries and a variety of time zones gathered virtually to share readings of Lawrence Durrell, discussion, and camaraderie. Thanks to everyone who participated. We enjoyed readings of poetry, the novels (especially The Alexandria Quartet), and the “island” books (like Bitter Lemons and Reflections on a Marine Venus). …
We have just lost another devoted Durrellian scholar and accomplished Renaissance man, Brewster Chamberlin. He served as long-time Director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C. and on the faculty and board of the Durrell School in Corfu. “To be guided around Avignon by Brewster was to experience the medieval renegade Papacy, and to …
David Williams Russell, a long-time and much-beloved member of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, passed away in Carmel, California at the age of 75 on Election Day, November 3, 2020. To read about his remarkable life and accomplishments, click here. We send our sincere condolences to his family and many friends.
The newest volume of The Herald has been posted and can be found online here. You’ll want to read this to get the updated information regarding the ILDS ‘On Miracle Ground’ conference which, due to the covid-19 pandemic, was postponed until 2022. Included in this volume is a lengthy eulogy for Michael Haag which was …
