Fred Johnston
Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951.
His collections are Measuring Angles (Connamara, Clo Iar-Chonnachta, 1993); True North (Cliffs of Moher, Co
Clare, Salmon Poetry, 1997); and Being Anywhere - New & Selected Poems (Belfast, Lagan Press, 2001).
His novels are Picture of a Girl in a Spanish
Hat (Tansy Books, 1979); Atalanta (Cork, Collins Press, 2000); and Mapping God/Le Tracé de Dieu (Galway, Wynkin de Worde, 2003).
He is dual winner of the Prix de l'Ambassade, for translating the work of French poet, Michel Martin.
He lives in Galway.
