Award-winning writer Kevin Barry will give a lecture on the influence of place, dialect, and hauntedness in his fiction on April 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Barry is the author of the novels City of Bohane, Beatlebone, and Night Boat to Tangier, and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. He is the recipient of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Goldsmiths Prize, Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize, Lannan Foundation Literary Award, Rooney Prize, Author’s Club Best First Novel Prize, and the European Union Prize for Literature. Sponsor: Lowell Humanities Series.