Maurice O'Sullivan

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Ruins of the house where the writer grew up (Great Blasket)

Maurice O'Sullivan ( Irish : Muiris Ó Súilleabháin ; born February 19, 1904 on Great Blasket Island ; died 1950 ) was an Irish-speaking Irish writer .

In his life story, published in 1933 under the title Fiche Blian ag Fás ( English under the title Twenty Years A-Growing ), one of the main works of Blasket literature , he reports with poetic freedom about childhood and youth on Great Blasket Island from the Blasket Islands in County Kerry , then the westernmost populated island in Europe. The first German edition was published in 1956 under the title Inselheimat by Manesse-Verlag in Zurich, a more recent one appeared under the title The sea is full of the most beautiful things in Göttingen near Lamuv (2000).

Works

  • Fiche Blian ag Fás (Irish) (First ed.). Baile Átha Cliath (Dublin): Clólucht an Talbóidigh. 1933.
    • Twenty Years A-Growing . Rendered from the original Irish by Moya Llewelyn Davies and George Thomson. With an Introductory Note by EM Forster. London Chatto & Windus, 1933.
    • Vingt ans de jeunesse [Fiche Bliain ag Fás] (French). Translated (from English into French) Raymond Queneau . Paris : Gallimard 1934.
    • Island home . Zurich 1956 ( Manesse Library of World Literature )
    • The sea is full of the most beautiful things [Twenty Years A-Growing]. An Irish life story. After the first translation [from the English] by Elisabeth Aman, it was revised and revised by Karl-Klaus Rabe. Göttingen, Lamuv, 2000, ISBN 3-88977-568-3

See also

literature

  • Dylan Thomas : A film script of Twenty years a-growing: from the story by Maurice O'Sullivan . Dent, 1964

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personal data
SURNAME O'Sullivan, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ó Súilleabháin, Muiris (Irish)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Blasket Island
DATE OF DEATH 1950