Desmond Hogan (born 10 December 1950) is an Irish writer and sex
offender. Awarded the 1977 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and 1980
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, his oeuvre comprises novels, plays, short
stories and travel writing.The Cork Examiner said: "Like no other
Irish writer just now, Hogan sets down what it's like to be a
disturbed child of what seems a Godforsaken country in these troubled
times."[1] The Irish Independent said he is "to be commended for the
fidelity and affection he shows to the lonely and the downtrodden."[2]
The Boston Globe said there "is something mannered in Hogan's prose,
which is festooned with exotic imagery and scattered in sentence
fragments."[3]A contemporary of Bruce Chatwin, Ian McEwan, Peter
Carey, Salman Rushdie and a close friend of Kazuo Ishiguro, he has
since vanished off the literary scene.[1] In October 2009, he was
placed on the sexual offenders list.[4]
offender. Awarded the 1977 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and 1980
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, his oeuvre comprises novels, plays, short
stories and travel writing.The Cork Examiner said: "Like no other
Irish writer just now, Hogan sets down what it's like to be a
disturbed child of what seems a Godforsaken country in these troubled
times."[1] The Irish Independent said he is "to be commended for the
fidelity and affection he shows to the lonely and the downtrodden."[2]
The Boston Globe said there "is something mannered in Hogan's prose,
which is festooned with exotic imagery and scattered in sentence
fragments."[3]A contemporary of Bruce Chatwin, Ian McEwan, Peter
Carey, Salman Rushdie and a close friend of Kazuo Ishiguro, he has
since vanished off the literary scene.[1] In October 2009, he was
placed on the sexual offenders list.[4]
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