Ferdia Lennon is the winner of the Waterstones debut fiction prize: Glorious Exploits. He became fascinated by the Greeks as a boy growing up in Dublin. He read The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides – considered to be a magnificent work of art and history – The Life of Nicea by Petrarch. These both inspired him to write the book: Glorious Exploits. The Life of Nicea covers how a group of Athenians, caught in a pit by the Syracuse, during the Peloponnesian War, had their lives spared by the Syracuse, because they quoted lines from Euripides’ poetry.
Art was as essential to life then as it is to us today – finding that spark in our soul through poetry, paintings, music, theatre and film.

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We are inspired by Ferdia Lennon through his own sources of inspiration.  I thank the translators who have art in their souls and translate from the classical Greek.  Ferdia Lennon will be at the Wimbledon Book Fest, South London, on October 19^th
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What inspires you?