Dermot Healy (9 November 1947 â€" 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".[1][2][3]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
himâ€"among the writers to have spoken highly of him are Seamus
Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe and Anne
Enright.[4][5]He was longlisted for the Booker Prize with his Novel A
Goats Song. Healy won the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976), the Tom
Gallon Award (1983), and the Encore Award (1995). In 2011, he was
shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award for his 2010 poetry collection, A
Fool's Errand. Long Time, No See was nominated for the International
Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable literary award for a
single work in the English language, by libraries in Russia and
Norway.[6]
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".[1][2][3]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
himâ€"among the writers to have spoken highly of him are Seamus
Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe and Anne
Enright.[4][5]He was longlisted for the Booker Prize with his Novel A
Goats Song. Healy won the Hennessy Award (1974 and 1976), the Tom
Gallon Award (1983), and the Encore Award (1995). In 2011, he was
shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award for his 2010 poetry collection, A
Fool's Errand. Long Time, No See was nominated for the International
Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable literary award for a
single work in the English language, by libraries in Russia and
Norway.[6]
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