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Dermot bolger
Guest at the 2019 Books & Music Festival
Guest at the 2019 Books & Music Festival
Poet, novelist and playwright, Dermot bolger was born in 1959 in the Dublin suburb of Finglas. Factory worker, then assistant librarian, editor, he has devoted himself exclusively to writing since 1980. He is considered one of the most brilliant Irish authors of his generation. His novels have been translated into many languages, his plays have won numerous awards including the Samuel Beckett Prize for The Lament for Arthur Cleary, the first of them.