Diary of a Young Naturalist: Verb Writers Festival 2020

Sixteen-year old Dara McAnulty’s Mother was once told  ‘Your son will never be able to complete a comprehension, never mind string a paragraph together’. Since then Diary of a Young Naturalist has won prestigious Wainwright Prize for nature writing and has been long listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non Fiction 2020. The memoir has captured the hearts and minds of readers across the world.

Dara beamed in from Northern Ireland to talk to Paul Stanley Ward (Capital Kiwi) about activism, autism and life as an acclaimed young writer at Verb Writers & Readers Festival 2020.

“Dara’s is an extraordinary voice and vision: brave, poetic, ethical, lyrical, strong enough to have made him heard and admired from a young age.” Robert MacFarlane