Sebastian Barry

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Sebastian Barry (* 5. July 1955 in Dublin ) is an Irish playwright and Roman - author .

Life

Barry was born in 1955 to the architect Francis Barry and the Irish actress Joan O'Hara in Dublin, where he also grew up. He went to Catholic University School and studied English and Latin at Trinity College , Dublin.

His writing career began in 1982 with the publication of the novel Macker's Garden . Several volumes of poetry and another novel, The Engine of Owl-Light , followed before the author embarked on the playwright 's field in 1986 and 1988 with The Pentagonal Dream and Boss Grady's Boys . The writer found his mainstay in the theater branch. He has also received several awards as a novelist.

Barry lives in County Wicklow with his wife, actress Alison Deegan, and their three children; he is a member of Aosdána .

Barry wrote the play The Steward of Christendom and the novel The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty , both of which address the clashes in Ireland in the early 20th century , in which not only the Irish were against the British, but also various wings of the Irish independence movement as well Irish supporters of union with England against each other. His maternal grandfather, Thomas Dunne, is the main character of The Steward of Christendom , the fate of his son Willie Dunne is the subject of the novel A Long Long Way .

reception

Barry's best-known novel, A Long Long Way , was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and received the 2006 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award . The novel tells the story of a young recruit to the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Willie Dunne, during the First World War . It illustrates the shared loyalty of the Irish to Ireland and England at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916. In 2008, Barry was shortlisted for the Booker Prize again with his novel The Secret Scripture .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

prose

Pieces

  • The Only True History of Lizzie Finn / Steward of Christendom / White Woman Street: 3 Plays . Methuen Drama, London 1996, ISBN 0-413-69890-4 .
  • Hinterland: A Play . Faber & Faber, London 2002, ISBN 0-571-21003-1 .
  • Pride of Parnell Street . Faber & Faber, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-571-23868-2 .
  • Barry Plays: 1 . A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 978-0-413-71120-5 (first at Methuen Contemporary Dramatists, London 2003)

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Portrait at Aosdána
  2. ↑ Irish author Barry makes Booker prize shortlist. In: The Irish Times . September 9, 2008.
  3. ↑ Sebastian Barry wins for the second time , boersenblatt.net, February 1, 2017, accessed on February 1, 2017.
  4. ↑ Alison Flood: Sebastian Barry named Irish fiction laureate, hailing 'golden age of Irish prose. In: The Guardian . February 8, 2018, accessed February 9, 2018.
  5. ↑ Costa Literature Prize to Sebastian Barry for "Days Without End" , derstandard.at, January 31, 2017, accessed on February 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Days Without End by Sebastian Barry review - a bravura journey into America's past , theguardian.com, October 28, 2016, accessed February 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Barry, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish playwright and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin