Monday 5th September, 2016
In a career spanning thirty-Six studio albums, he has been honoured with a Brit Award, a knighthood, an Ivor Novello, six Grammys, honorary doctorates from Queen’s University Belfast and University of Ulster, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the French Ordres des Artes et des Lettres. Van Morrison has done nothing less than re-define the possibilities of popular music.
In a career spanning thirty-Six studio albums, he has been honoured with a Brit Award, a knighthood, an Ivor Novello, six Grammys, honorary doctorates from Queen’s University Belfast and University of Ulster, induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the French Ordres des Artes et des Lettres. Van Morrison has done nothing less than re-define the possibilities of popular music. The range of his work is clear from the first volume of his lyrics, Lit Up Inside. Selected Lyrics (Faber and Faber, 2014). This publication was the catalyst for a series of sell-out, introspective performances which explored the roots of his art in the company of some special guest contributors.
For this year’s Aspects Van Morrison will also be joined in conversation by some invited friends.
Eamonn Hughes, editor of Lit Up Inside, a former lecturer in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast, where he was also Assistant Director of the Institute of Irish Studies. He specializes in Irish literary and cultural studies.
Number one bestselling crime writer IAN RANKIN has received an OBE for services to literature, opting to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he lives with his partner and two sons.
London based writer and poet, SCARLETT SABET, has published two collections, Rocking Underground and The Lock and the Key. She has performed at many prestigious venues including Shakespeare and Company in Paris, The Troubadour in London and The Poetry Society.
PAUL MULDOON is an Irish poet and professor of poetry, as well as an editor, critic, and translator. He is the author of twelve major collections of poetry and has served as Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and has taught at Princeton University since 1987. He has been poetry editor of The New Yorker since 2007. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and the Shakespeare Prize.
Liverpool born, Canadian bred, New Yorker, KIM CATRALL is a Golden Globe award wining actress of stage and screen. In 2010, Cattrall was named an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University in recognition of her contributions to the dramatic arts. She is currently filming for a new BBC adaption of Agatha Christie’s courtroom drama, The Witness for the Prosecution.
