Saturday 29th March 1975
Location: Watergate Theatre, Parliament Street, Kilkenny. R95 D320
David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. Known for his sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, he’s the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition.
Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, Sedaris is the author of ‘Barrel Fever’, ‘Holidays on Ice’, ‘Naked’, ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’, ‘Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim’, ‘When You Are Engulfed in Flames’, ‘Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls and Theft By Finding: Diaries’ (1977-2002) as well as ‘Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary’, which is a collection of fables with illustrations by Ian Falconer. Each of these books was an immediate bestseller.

In addition, Sedaris and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family”, writing a half dozen plays including ‘Stump the Host’, ‘Stitches’, ‘One Woman Shoe’ and ‘The Book of Liz’.

Sedaris has been nominated for three Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His audio recordings nclude “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure” and “David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall.”

There are over 16 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.
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