Aidan Carl Matthews (var. Aidan Matthews)
Aidan Carl Mathews was born in 1956 in Dublin.
His poetry collections include Windfalls (Dublin, The Dolmen Press, 1977); Minding Ruth (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1983); and According to the Small Hours (London, Jonathan Cape, 1998).
His plays are The Diamond Body (Project Theatre, Dubin); Entrance, Exit (The Peacock Theatre, Dublin); and Communion (The Peacock Theatre).
He has also published two collections of stories, Adventures in a Bathyscope (Secker & Warburg, London, 1988), and Lipstick on the Host (Secker & Warburg, 1992); and a novel, Muesli at Midnight (Secker & Warburg, 1990).
He has edited Immediate Man: Cuimhni Ar Chearbhall Ó Dalaigh, a tribute to one of Ireland's former Presidents (Buckinghamshire, UK, Colin Smythe, 1983).
His awards include The Irish Times Award, 1974; The Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1976; the Macauley Fellowship in 1978-9 and an Academy of American Poets Award in 1982. He reached the shortlist for the first GPA Book Award in 1989. He lives in County Dublin.
