Dermot Healy
Dermot Healy was born in Westmeath in 1947.
His short stories are
collected as Banished Misfortune (London, Allison & Busby, 1984).
His novels are Fighting with Shadows (London, Allison & Busby 1984);
A Goat’s Song (London, Collins Harvill, 1994); and Sudden Times (London, The Harvill Press, 1999).
His autobiography is The Bend for Home (Harvill, 1996).
His plays include
The Long Swim (1988); Curtains (1990); and On Broken Wings (1992).
His version of Lorca’s Blood Wedding was staged in 1989.
His poetry includes Neighbours’ Lights (1992); The Ballyconnel
Colours (Loughcrew, The Gallery Press, 1995); What the Hammer (Gallery Press, 1998); and The Reed Bed (The Gallery Press, 2001).
He starred in the film I Could Read the Sky (Artificial Eye, 2002, adapted by Nichola Bruce from the photographic novel by Timothy O’Grady and Steve Pyke.
Other work includes the text of After the Off (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999).
His awards include the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976);
the Tom Gallon Award (1983); the Encore Award (1995); and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award, 2002.
He is a member of
Aosdána and lives in County Sligo.
