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Sandra Mallon

Hollywood legend Tom Hanks set to attend Dublin book festival next month

Hollywood legend Tom Hanks is set to arrive in Ireland next month to attend a book festival.

The two-time Oscar winner will speak at the Dalkey Film Festival on June 16, to talk about his debut novel The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece.

The book, which will be released next week, spans several decades and has been described by his publishers as a “wildly ambitious” story about the making of film.

The novel is about a “colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film and the humble comic book that inspired it”, according to the official synopsis.

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He will also discuss his path from film to fiction writing and organisers have said that each ticket holder will also receive a copy of the book.

In addition to Hanks, it was also announced that Bono and physicist Brian Cox have been added to the line-up.

The annual book festival, which was set up by David McWilliams and Sian Smyth in 2010, runs from June 15 to 18. It has previously hosted a Nobel Laureate, Booker Prize winners and Oscar nominees.

Succession actor Brian Cox will also attend the Dalkey Book Festival (Getty Images)

To close the festival this year, Dubliners Bono and Fintan O’Toole will talk about their very different but overlapping memoirs, Surrender and We Don’t Know Ourselves.

Other speakers include U2′s The Edge, physics professor and TV presenter Brian Cox, and comedian Ruby Wax.

Among the other names announced already to address the event are Dylan Moran, John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Liz Nugent, Deirdre O’Kane and Roddy Doyle.

Tickets to the events with Tom Hanks, Brian Cox, Bono and Fintan O’Toole will go on sale at 10am on Wednesday.

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