Dermot Healy

Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 – 29 June 2014) was an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy was also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Born in Finea, County Westmeath, he lived in County Sligo, and was described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist".

Often overlooked due to his relatively low public profile, Healy's work is admired by his Irish literary predecessors, peers and successors alike, many of whom idolise him—among the writers to have spoken highly of him are Seamus Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe and Anne Enright. He has won several literary awards, and been nominated for both the Booker Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014
    Published 1992
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    by Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014
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    by Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014
    Published 1998
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    by Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014
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    by Healy, Dermot, 1947-2014
    Published 2015
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