Our twenty-third On Miracle Ground conference will be 16–18 July 2026. We’ll be returning to beautiful Vancouver to share our thoughts and interests related to the worlds in Durrell’s words. We hope you’ll join us! Save the date, and check out the call for papers on the conference website.
The latest edition of the ILDS Herald is out! This issue shares many exciting pieces: an announcement of winners of the 2025 White Mice Poetry Competition; thoughts on Bellepais by Paddy Briggs; Bartolo Casiraghi’s Durrellian tour through Istanbul’s space and history; Rena Schröder’s musings of Gustaf Gründgens’s role bringing Durrell to the German-speaking world; Siarlot …
Join us on Saturday, October 25, for a presentation and discussion of Michael Haag’s new book Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell 1912—1945. This 90-minute event will be held on Zoom and starts at 10:30 AM in New York (3:30 PM in London; 11:30 p.m in Tokyo). More details, including the presenters and Zoom …
We’re pleased to welcome submissions for this year’s White Mice Poetry Competition, with the theme “home port.” The deadline is October 15, 2025. More details can be found on the poetry competition page. We look forward to reading your submissions!
A new collection of essays entitled Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria to Angkor Wat, co-edited by Isabelle Keller-Privat and Anne R. Zahlan, has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Explore it further at: Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell: Alexandria to Angkor Wat: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
On Miracle Ground XXII, the biannual conference of the International Lawrence Durrell Society, took place on July 4-6, 2024 in Athens, Greece. And what a fabulous occasion it was! In addition to scholarly and creative presentations, attendees enjoyed a number of delicious meals together and a special outing on Monday, July 8, to the island …
As has been the custom for many years, members of the International Lawrence Durrell Society gathered at the Conference for Literature Since 1900 at the University of Louisville on 22-25 February 2024. A stimulating panel featured scholarly presentations by Umme Al-Wazedi, James Clawson, and James Gifford and was followed by nightly festive dinners together. The …
The 2023 White Mice Contest results are in! In keeping with the ILDS conference to be held in Athens in early July 2024, the theme was “Ruins.” As always, the poems are evocative and powerful. Thanks to Dianne Vipond, Julia Hardie Kaczvinsky, and Julie Kane for serving as judges. To view the winners and read …
The latest edition of the ILDS Herald is here! It is packed with many exciting articles: Reflections on the life of Durrell’s wife Claude by her niece, Sibylle Vincendon; James Clawson’s study of Durrell and artificial intelligence in The Revolt of Aphrodite; Christopher Bacon’s account of his encounters with Larry; the final installment of Pamela Francis’s …
