Reading 1

Irish Writers' Centre reading on Tuesday 2nd October 7.30pm

Novelist, playwright and poet Dermot Healy was born in Finea, Co. Westmeath in 1947. He has twice won the Hennessy Short Story Award and has also received both the Encore Award and the Irish-American Award for Literature. His novels include Fighting with Shadows (1984), A Goat's Song (1994), Sudden Times (1999), and Long Time, No See (2011). His short stories are collected as Banished Misfortune (1982). His autobiography The Bend for Home was published in 1996. He has written and directed plays, including The Long Swim, On Broken Wings and Mister Staines, and wrote the screenplay for Our Boys. His poetry collections include The Ballyconnell Colours (1993), What the Hammer (1998), The Reed Bed (2002) and A Fool’s Errand (2010). He now lives in Sligo, where he founded and edited the literary journals The Drumlin and Force 10. He is a member of Aosdána.