Hugo Hamilton (writer)
Hugo Hamilton ( born 1953 in Dublin) is an Irish writer.
Life
Hamilton grew up in the Irish capital Dublin. His mother was a German, who came on pilgrimage to Ireland in 1949, where she married an Irish engineer. This was a strict Irish nationalist who insisted that his children should speak German or Irish, but not English. The young Hugo, the other children learned English while playing, and said, this rule was very difficult. He felt no language group belong: "There were no other children who resembled me, no ethnic group that I could join me."
Hamilton worked as a journalist, then began to write short stories and novels. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1992. 2001/2002 he lived under a DAAD scholarship in Berlin and used the time to finish a book about his childhood: In 2003, The Speckled People (Eng. 2004 Speckled People ); In 2004, the French translation Sang impur the Prix Femina Etranger. A sequel, The Sailor in the Wardrobe, was published in 2006 (Eng. 2006 The sailor in the closet ).
2007, after the journey of Heinrich Böll understood, from the Irish Journal acts, he wrote The loquacious island for the German Luchterhand Literaturverlag. 2011 was published by the same publisher, the novel The Irish Friend ( Original title: Hand in the Fire).
Hamilton is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.