Declan Hughes

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Declan Hughes (born 1963 in Dublin ) is an Irish writer and director .

Hughes co-founded the Rough Magic Theater Company, Ireland's premier independent theater, with Lynne Parker in 1984, and was the group's artistic director until 1992, staging sixteen productions. He has been writing plays since the early 1990s and, since 2006, crime novels with private detective Ed Loy as protagonist. He also wrote the script for The Flying Scotsman (2006) about the Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree .

He lives in South Dublin with his wife and two daughters.

Awards

  • 1991 Stewart Parker Award and BBC NI TV Drama Award for the play I Can't Get Started
  • 2007 Shamus Award - Best First PI Novel for the novel The Wrong Kind of Blood
  • 2011 Prix ​​du polar européen for Coup de sang ( The Wrong Kind of Blood )

Blood from my blood

Los Angeles private detective Ed Loy returns to his old home in Dublin after 20 years when his mother dies. He had fled Ireland when his father disappeared without a trace. At his mother's funeral, his childhood sweetheart Linda approaches him and asks him for help in finding her missing husband. While researching the boomtown Dublin, the detective not only comes across current machinations, but also traces of his past. The novel "has all the ingredients of the good old American crime novel of the black series" (Antje Deistler in the WDR book tip)

Works

Novels

  • 2006 The Wrong Kind of Blood

→ Blood from my blood , German by Tanja Handels; Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 2006. ISBN 3-499-24142-0

  • 2007 The Color of Blood (US title: The Color of Blood)

→ A ring made of blood , German by Tanja Handels; Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 2007. ISBN 3-499-24144-7

  • 2008 The Dying Breed (US title: The Price of Blood)

→ Blood Rivals , German by Tanja Handels; Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt 2008. ISBN 978-3-499-24143-7 )

  • 2009 All the Dead Voices

→ The price of blood , German by Anja Schünemann; Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt. ISBN 978-3-499-25218-1

  • 2010 City of Lost Girls

Scripts

  • 2006 The Flying Scotsman (with John Brown and Simon Rose)

Pieces

  • 1990 I Can't Get Started , premiered by Rough Magic Theater Company
  • 1991 Digging for Fire , premiered by Rough Magic Theater Company
  • 1993 New Morning , Rough Magic Theater Company premiered with The Bush Theater, London
  • 1997 Halloween Night , premiered by Rough Magic Theater Company
  • 1998 Twenty Grand , premiered at Abbey Theater , Dublin
  • 1999 Boomtown , first performed at the Dublin Theater Festival
  • 2003 Shiver , first performed by Rough Magic Theater Company

Unit issues:

  • Digging for Fire & New Morning . Methuen, London 1994, ISBN 0-413-68250-1
  • Plays 1: Digging for Fire, New Morning, Halloween Night, Love and a Bottle . Methuen, London 1998, ISBN 0-413-72380-1

literature

  • Contemporary Authors , Detroit, Vol. 249 (2007), p. 204

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personal data
SURNAME Hughes, Declan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish author, playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin