Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Gerard Carson ( born October 9, 1948 in Belfast ) is a Northern Irish writer. His award-winning poetry combines the traditional Irish storytelling with postmodern elements.
Life and work
Ciaran Carson grew up as the son of a postman on in one of the few Irish-speaking families in Belfast. He took in 1967 to study at Queen's University of Belfast and worked from 1975 for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 1998 he became a professor at Queen's University and is there since 2003 also director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry.
His first volume of poetry, The New Estate ( 1976) was awarded the Eric Gregory Award. For The Irish for No (1987 ) Carson was awarded the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for Belfast Confetti (1990 ) the Irish Literature Prize for Poetry of the Irish Times, for First Language ( 1993), the TS Eliot Prize and receive breaking news (2003) the Forward Poetry Prize. Characteristic of his poems are the long verses and the wealth of allusions and details. His subjects are mainly Belfast and language.
Since the 1990s, Carson also emerged through prose publications. He authored two books on Irish traditional music, a work about his home city of Belfast, the story Fishing for Amber and the novels Shamrock Tea and The Pen Friend. In addition, Carson has worked as a translator and an honorary member of the Irish Translators 'and Interpreters' Association and a member of Aosdána. He transferred among others, Dante's Inferno and the Táin Bó Cúailnge into English.