Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy (born 1947 in Finnea, County Westmeath, Ireland) is an Irish novelist, playwright, and poet. He has won the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976), the Tom Gallon Award (1983), and the Encore Award (1995). In 2011, he was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award for his poetry collection, A Fool's Errand.

Healy is a member of Aosdána and of its governing body, the Toscaireacht, and lives in County Sligo, Ireland.

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Bibliography

Fictions

  • Banished Misfortune (London, Allison & Busby, 1984), collected short stories
  • Fighting with Shadows (London, Allison & Busby 1984)
  • A Goat's Song (London, Collins Harvill, 1994)
  • Sudden Times (London, The Harvill Press, 1999)
  • Long Time, No See (Faber and Faber, 2011)

Autobiography

  • The Bend for Home (Harvill, 1996)

Plays

  • Here and There and Going to America (1985)
  • The Long Swim (1988)
  • Curtains (1990)
  • On Broken Wings (1992)
  • Last Nights of Fun (1994)
  • Boxes (1998)
  • Mister Staines (1999)
  • Metagama (2005)
  • A night at the Disco (to be published in 2006)[dated info]

Poetry

  • Neighbours' Lights (1992)
  • The Ballyconnel Colours (1995)
  • What the Hammer (1998)
  • The Reed Bed (2001).

Film

  • I Could Read the Sky (1999).

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