Desmond Hogan Author

Desmond Hogan was born in Ballinasloe, east Galway, in 1950. He is the author of 'The Ikon Maker' (1976, 2013), 'The Leaves on Grey' (1980, 2014), 'A Curious Street' (1984), 'A New Shirt' (1986) and 'A Farewell to Prague' (1995). His short-story collection 'The Diamonds at the Bottom of the Sea' (1979) won the 1980 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize; others include 'Larks' Eggs: New and Selected Stories' (The Lilliput Press, 2005), 'Old Swords and Other Stories' (The Lilliput Press, 2009) and 'House of Mourning and Other Stories' (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013). In 1971 he won the Hennessy Literary Award, in 1977 the Rooney Prize for Literature, and in 1991 was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. Editions Grasset & Fasquelle in Paris have acquired all his works for translation into French, embarking in 2015 and concluding in 2022.