Paul Larkin

Paul Larkin is a journalist, filmmaker, critic, and translator from the Danish and other Scandinavian languages. In 1997 The Gap in the Mountain... Our Journey into Europe, the six-part film series he wrote and directed as an independent production for RTÉ, won him the European Journalist of the Year Award (the overall award and the film director category). In 2008, he was awarded the Best International Director prize at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival for his Irish-language docudrama Imeacht na nIarlaí (The Flight of the Earls) starring Stephen Rea. He lives in a Gaeltacht area of County Donegal, Ireland, where Irish is the predominant language of everyday use.

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    The White Bear Henrik Pontoppidan
    Publication Date: Jun 10, 2025
  • A Fortunate Man
    A Fortunate Man
    A Fortunate Man Henrik Pontoppidan
    Publication Date: Jun 10, 2025
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    The Liar
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