Dermot Healy

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Dermot Healy (born July 18, 1947 in Finnea , County Westmeath - † June 29, 2014 in Ballyconnell , County Sligo ) was an Irish writer of poetry , short stories , dramas and novels .

Life

Dermot Healy grew up the son of a police officer and was expelled from school at 15 for sneaking out to a pop concert. He went to London as a teenager , where he got by with odd jobs. His return to normal education at University College Dublin failed and another 15 miserable years in London followed. He processed his time in London in the 1999 novel Sudden Times . After his first volume of short stories was published in 1982, Healy returned to Ireland and settled in County Sligo, where he was part of an artist community in Ballyconnell with the author Leland Bardwell and the painter Sean McSweeney .

In addition to poetry and prose, Healy has written nine plays. His play Women to the Left, Men to the Right was performed in Ireland's Abbey Theater in Dublin in 2001 and broadcast on RTÉ Radio in 2002 . He himself played minor roles in feature films, such as The Guard (2011), Mapmaker (2001), I Could Read the Sky (1999), Der Schlächterbursche ( Butcher Boy , 1997) and he wrote the screenplay for two short films .

In Ireland he became a member of the Aosdána artists' association in 1986 and was a member of the Toscaireacht board from 1999 to 2002 and 2011 to 2012. He was seen as a role model by the authors Anne Enright , Roddy Doyle and Patrick McCabe . For his collection of stories Banished Misfortune he received the "Hennessy Literary Award" and the "Tom Gallon Award". For his second novel, Der Lachsfischer , he received the " Encore Award ".

Works (selection)

  • Long time, no see . Faber and Faber, 2011
  • A Fool's Errand . Long poem. Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Gallery Press, Ireland 2010
  • The Reed Bed . Poems. Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Gallery Press, Ireland 2001
  • Sudden Times . The Harvill Press, London 1999
  • After the off . Short story. With photographs by Bruce Gilden . Dewi Lewis, Stockport 1999.
  • What the hammer . Poems. Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Gallery Press, Ireland 1998
  • The Bend for Home . Autobiography. Harvill, 1996
    • The beautiful world of lies. Irish memoir . From the English by Hans-Christian Oeser. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004
  • A goat's song . Collins Harvill, London 1994
    • The salmon fisherman. Novel . From the English by Brigitte Walitzek. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2000
  • Neighbors' Lights . Short story. Turret Bookshop, 1992
  • The Ballyconnel Colors . Poems. Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Gallery Press, Ireland 1992
  • Fighting with shadows, or, Sciamachy . London, Allison & Busby, 1984
  • Banished Misfortune, and other stories . Short stories. London, Allison & Busby, 1982

Plays

  • Here and There and Going to America . 1985
  • The Long Swim . 1988
  • On broken wings . 1992
  • Last nights of fun . 1994
  • Boxes . 1998
  • Mister Staines . 1999
  • Women to the Left, Men to the Right . 2001
  • Metagama . 2005
  • A night at the disco . 2006
  • Where are we? . 2012

literature

  • Andrea Beck: Sudden Times in the Mirror of Gilles Deleuze's Rhizome Theory , in: Anglia . 121, no.1, (2003): 87
  • Jennifer Keating-Miller: A Republic of One: Individuality, Autonomy and the Question of Irish Collectivity in Seamus Deane's Reading in the Dark and Dermot Healy's A Goat's Song , in: Language, identity and liberation in contemporary Irish literature . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [et. a.] 2009, ISBN 978-0-230-23750-6
  • Elmer Kennedy-Andrews: Fiction of the Northern Ireland troubles since 1969: (de-) constructing the North . Four Courts Press, Dublin 2003, ISBN 1-85182-713-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patsy McGarry: Sudden death of writer Dermot Healy inspires many tributes , in: The Irish Times , July 1, 2014
  2. ↑ a b Angela Schader (as.): A stubborn spirit , obituary, in: NZZ , July 1, 2014
  3. ↑ Eileen Battersby: Poet and novelist Dermot Healy dies aged 66 , in: The Irish Times , June 30, 2014
  4. ↑ Dermot Healy , at Irish Theater Institute: Playography Ireland . Retrieved July 3, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b Dermot Healy on the Aosdána website. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  6. ↑ Review of Long Time, No See : Terry Eagleton : An Octopus at the Window , in: The London Review of Books , Vol. 33, 2011, Issue 10, pp. 23-24.
personal data
SURNAME Healy, Dermot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish author of poetry, short stories, dramas and novels
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Finnea , County Westmeath
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 2014
Place of death Ballyconnell , County Sligo