As the White Storks leave - of Memoir and Memory... An author journeys through Poland and Ukraine, past and present

In this talk, organised by the Centre for European Studies (CEUROS), author Greg Dinner will revisit those journeys in fiction and memoir, and why today they matter to all of us. More than ever. Author, Screenwriter Greg Dinner’s A GEOMETRY OF SNOWFLAKES, part memoir, part fiction, resulting from travels in western in Ukraine in 2025, was published in September 2026. His published novels include FRAGMENTS and a sister novel A REQUIEM FOR HANIA, inspired by a true story of the Warsaw Ghetto and a young Polish woman’s search for identity in Poland decades later, in 2022. Other novels include A MURMURATION OF STARLINGS and NARCISSUS IN UTERO, both part of his ‘Shadow Wolf Chronicles’ series inspired by the ‘Shadow Wolf’ television series he developed in Los Angeles. In 2024 he published his nonfiction WHISPERS OF GHOSTS: DAYS AND NIGHTS UKRAINE about time spent in Ukraine in early 2024. Greg began his film career as a studio executive in Los Angeles with stints at United Artists, MGM, Columbia Pictures and Tri Star Films, before moving to London in 1984. From 1996-99 he was Head of Drama Development at RTE, Dublin, the Irish State Broadcaster. As a screenwriter in both film and television, his work focused primarily on factually backdropped drama set in conflict zones with an interest in trauma, politics, human rights and history. He has worked as a writer, executive and visiting tutor in the US, UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Norway, India, Italy and Brazil. He is a member both of Irish PEN and San Miguel PEN, WGA, WGGB, BAFTA and a professional member of The Writer’s Centre, Ireland. He is a professional advisor to the European Commission’s Creative Media for visual media development and production finance. A dual Irish and US citizen, he now lives in the West of Ireland. Please register here for catering purposes: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/literary-talk-as-the-white-storks-leave-of…;