John McGahern
John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and resides in County Leitrim, Ireland. Generally considered by critics to be one of his country’s greatest living writers, McGahern is the author of five novels, which include the celebrated Amongst Women, published in 1990, and four collections of short stories.
In his most recent novel, By the Lake, he writes of life in a close-knit Irish rural community where, “the days disappear in the attendance of small tasks.” Of McGahern Irish poet and literary critic Seamus Deane says, “At last an Irish author has awakened from the nightmare of history and given us a sense of liberation which is not dependent on flight or emigration or escape.”
John McGahern elsewhere on Lannan.org
John McGahern, 2003, (Literary: Awards, Fellowships, and Grants)John McGahern with Hermione Lee, 2004, (Events)
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