Matthew Sweeney

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Matthew Sweeney ( October 6, 1952 in Lifford , County Donegal - August 5, 2018 ) was an Irish writer best known as a poet .

Life

Sweeney was born in Donegal, the northernmost county of Ireland , in 1952. He attended school in County Meath and the UCD in Dublin . In 1973 he moved to London , which initially became his main residence. Sweeney studied in London and at the University in Freiburg chemical engineering but not graduated from.

In 1981, Sweeney's first volume of poetry, A Dream of Maps, was published, followed by numerous others. In addition to poetry for adult readers, Sweeney also wrote poetry and short stories for children and was (co-) editor of several poetry anthologies. The book for young people Fuchs and the books of poetry Rosa Milch (2008 by Berlin Verlag ) and Hund und Mond (2017 by Hanser Verlag ) were published in German in 2003 , each translated by Jan Wagner . Sweeney later lived again in Ireland, alternating between southern County Cork and Donegal. He was a member of Aosdána .

Sweeney died in August 2018 at the age of 65 from complications from motor neuron disease .

Awards (selection)

  • Prudence Farmer Prize (1984)
  • Henfield Writing Fellowship (1986)
  • Cholmondely Award (1987)
  • DAAD Fellowship in Berlin
  • Bisto Book of the Year Award (Merit Award, 2003) for Fox
  • Pigott Poetry Prize (2014) for Horse Music

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • A dream of maps. 1981
  • A round house. 1983
  • The Lame Waltzer. 1985
  • Blue Shoes. 1989
  • Cacti. 1992
  • The Bridal Suite. 1997
  • A smell of fish. 2000
  • Sanctuary. 2004
  • Black moon. 2007
  • The Night Post. 2010
  • Horse Music. 2013
  • Inquisition Lane. 2015
  • My Life as a Painter. 2018

Books for children

  • The Chinese Dressing Gown. Fiction. 1987
  • The Snow Vulture. Fiction. 1992
  • The Flying Spring Onion. Poems. 1992
  • Fatso in the Red Suit. Poems. 1995
  • Up On The Roof: New & Selected Poems. 2001
  • Fox. Fiction. 2002

Non-fiction

  • with John Hartley Williams: Writing Poetry. 1997/2003
  • On Being Translated by Jan Wagner , in: text + kritik , Heft 210, 2016, pp. 76–79

Works in German

  • Fox. Youth book. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8270-5106-1
  • Pink milk. Poems . Selected, translated and edited with an afterword by Jan Wagner . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8270-0744-5
  • Dog and moon. Poems . Translated by Jan Wagner. Hanser Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-446-25684-2
  • Replies. To pictures of Caspar Walter Rauhs . First Report - Fish Update - No Man's Land . Translated by Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa. In: Yearbook of the German Studies Association of Ireland. Volume 12, 2017, pp. 256-259

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The city of Donegal is also sometimes given as the place of birth .
  2. ^ Marie O'Halloran: Aosdána poet Matthew Sweeney dies at 66 of motor neurone disease. In: irishtimes.com . August 5, 2018, accessed August 6, 2018 .
  3. ^ Matthew Sweeney. Aosdána , accessed on August 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ Matthew Sweeney: Life. In: PGIL-EIRData.org. Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco), archived from the original on January 28, 2005 ; accessed on August 7, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Sweeney, Matthew. In: Irish Writers Online. April 9, 2016, accessed August 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Annette Brüggemann: The miracle of pink milk - The Irish poet Matthew Sweeney on poker and red carnations. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Büchermarkt”. May 27, 2008, Retrieved August 6, 2018 (quotations from Sweeney and Wagner).
  7. ↑ Matthew Sweeney is dead. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . August 6, 2018, accessed August 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Sweeney, Matthew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Lifford
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 2018