Dermot Bolger
was born in Dublin in 1959. One of Ireland’s best known authors, his seven novels include Father’s Music, A Second Life and The Journey Home – one of the most controversial Irish novels of the 1990s. His eight plays, including The Lament for Arthur Cleary, The Passion of Jerome and April Bright, have received several awards including the Samuel Beckett Prize and have been staged in many countries. Plays: 1, the first volume of his Selected Plays, was recently published by Methuen.
A former factory hand and library assistant, he founded the Raven Arts Press while still in his teens. In addition to being a poet and editor, he was the instigator of the collaborative novels, Finbar’s Hotel and Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel (which have appeared in twelve countries) and editor of The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction. He lives and works in Dublin.
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