Frank Ronan

Frank Ronan (born 1963 in New Ross , County Wexford ) is an Irish writer .

life and work

Ronan was born in 1963 in the county of Wexford, Southeast Ireland, the second of ten children to a Catholic family. Already his 1989 published first novel, The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton (dt. 1997 The man who loved Evelyn Cotton ) was awarded the prestigious Irish Times Aer Lingus Literature Award excellent. In addition to Evelyn Cotton , Ronan was best known in German-speaking countries with the previously published Dixie Chicken (1994; German 1996). His novel hOme from 2002 (German 2003 as Cosmic dancer ) was announced by Ronan as the first volume of a four-volume (auto) biography of a boy named Coorg, born in 1963; Until the end of the 2010s, however, no further publications by Ronan are detectable. Ronan's works were published in German by Eichborn Verlag in Frankfurt , repeatedly translated by Bernhard Robben .

Ronan lived in France and England, then again in Ireland.

Awards (selection)

• Irish Times Aer Lingus Literature Award

Works

• The Men Who Loved Evelyn Cotton . Roman, London 1989
  • German: The man who loved Evelyn Cotton . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-8218-0542-0
• Picnic in Eden . Roman, London 1991
  • German: Picnic in Eden . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8218-0594-3
• The Better Angel . Roman, London 1992
• Dixie Chicken . Roman, London 1994
  • German: Dixie Chicken . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-8218-0485-8
• Lovely . Roman, London 1995
• Handsome Men Are Slightly Sunburnt . Short stories, London 1996
• Home . Roman, London 2002
  • German: Cosmic Dancer . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-8218-0916-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Frank Ronan in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website (English).
• Complete list also of early publications or as co-author in the National Library of Ireland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reference to frankronan.com/novels (engl.)