Dermot Bolger

Dermot Bolger ( born February 6, 1959 in Dublin) is an Irish writer, editor and publisher, who since the late 1970s is also one of the key instigators in Irish cultural life of his literary activity has ended.

Life and work

Bolger was born in 1959 in Finglas in North Dublin, which was still a rather proletarian embossed suburb of Dublin. The experiences and feelings of workers are also the focus of some of his works. Bolger attended the Beneavin College, a Catholic De La Salle- boy school in Finglas, and was afterwards factory laborer. Between 1979 and 1984 he worked in a library. Encouraged by the poet Anthony Cronin, Bolger founded just 17 years old 1977, the Raven Arts Press, which published become an important alternative publishing house for new Irish poetry and prose as well as to one who should develop motor ' in the Irish cultural scene, and there his own and others' poems; from 1979 to 1992 he was its director.

With Raven Arts Bolger was actively publishing work out in the cultural life of Ireland, he by with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland, among others the, encounter with seal ' in the school system organized to bring the work of contemporary poets in the Irish schools, as he also organized art festivals in Finglas.

Bolger's own, growing literary productivity led in 1992 to the closure of Raven Arts Press, but he was already founded in 1992 in Dublin for " New Iceland Books", a publishing house for poetry and dramatic literature, successfully laid Irish writer today and as well as the Raven Arts Press as yet unknown contemporary authors promotes.

Since 1980, Bolger has submitted a separate, comprehensive lyrical and dramatic work, as well as several novels. In addition, he was and is, even outside his own publishing companies, often acting as a publisher. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Night Shift (1982 )
  • The Woman 's Daughter (1987, rev. Ext ' u. , 1991)
  • The Journey Home (1990 )
  • Emily's Shoes ( 1992)
  • A Second Life (1994 )
  • Father's Music ( 1997)
  • Temptation (2000)
  • The Valparaiso Voyage ( 2001)
  • The Family on Paradise Pier ( 2005)

Dramas

  • The Lament for Arthur Cleary (1989 )
  • Blinded by the Light ( 1990)
  • In High Germany (1990 )
  • The Holy Ground ( 1990)
  • One Last White Horse (1991 )
  • A Dublin Bloom ( 1994)
  • April Bright ( 1995)
  • The Passion of Jerome (1999)
  • Consenting Adults (2000)
  • From These Green Heights (2004)
  • The Townlands of Brazil (2006)
  • Walking the Road ( 2007)
  • Ranelagh Bus ( 2007)
  • The Consequences of Lightning ( 2008)

Poetry

  • The Habit of Flesh (1980 )
  • Finglas Lillies (1981 )
  • No waiting America ( 1982)
  • Internal Exiles (1986 )
  • Leinster Street Ghosts ( 1989)
  • Taking Back My Letters (1998)
  • The Chosen Moment ( 2004)
  • External Affairs (2008)

Editorship

  • Suburban Poetry, Writer's Workshop Magazine of Finglas (from 1977)
  • Invisible Dublin ( 1985)
  • A Bright Wave / Antonn Gheal (1989 )
  • The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction ( 1993), ISBN 9780330326162
  • Ireland In Exile (1993 )
  • Letters from The New Iceland (1995 )
  • Finbar 's Hotel (1997) - a " novel" about a night in a hotel in Dublin with not subscribed texts by Bolger, Doyle, Enright, Hamilton, Johnston, O'Connor and Tóibín.
  • The New Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction ( 2005)
  • County Lines: A Portrait of Life in South Dublin County ( 2006)

In addition, Bolger wrote several film scripts.

Works on German

  • Journey home. Novel, trans. by Thomas Gunkel. Heat Roth, Marburg 1992, ISBN 3-89398-090-3 (as TB in the Red Book, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-88022-395-5 )
  • Finbar's Hotel. Novel. Developed and edited. by Dermot Bolger, Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-8105-0246-4
  • On Französ. Irlandais Un en Allemagne, Librio, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-290-30872-2
  • Ladies Night at Finbar's Hotel. Developed and edited. by Dermot Bolger [ Roman], Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-8105-0247-2
  • The temptation. Novel, Red Book, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-434-53096-7
  • The trip to Valparaiso. Novel, Red Book, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-434-53108-4
  • In football fever. Narrative, Frankfurt / M. 2003; ISBN 3-499-23424-6
  • Where the lost souls live. Mystery thriller, buoy, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-414-82335-9
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