Gerard Beirne is an Irish author and literary editor. He is a fiction editor for The Fiddlehead and curates the online magazine The Irish Literary Times.[1]
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Born | (1962-10-30) October 30, 1962 (age 59) County Tipperary, Ireland |
Nationality | Irish |
Citizenship | Irish, Canadian |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
Notable awards | Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer of the Year, 1996 |
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In 2008, Beirne served as Writer in Residence at the University of New Brunswick, where he taught creative writing.[2] Beirne currently teaches at the Atlantic Technological University in Sligo.
In 1996, Beirne was awarded two Hennessey Literary Awards, "New Irish Writer of the Year" and "Best Emerging Fiction Writer".[3][4] His debut novel The Eskimo in the Net was short-listed for the 2004 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was selected as Book of the Year by the Daily Express.[5] In 1997, Digging My Own Grave was runner-up for the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.[6] In 2000, Bono starred in a short film adaptation of Beirne's story "Sightings of Bono." Beirne's collaboration with composer Siobhán Cleary, Hum, was called "a theatrical tour de force" by The Irish Times.[7] Beirne's first short story collection, In a Time of Drought and Hunger was shortlisted for the 2016 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.[8] That same year, he was shortlisted for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards for his short story "What a River Remembers of its Course."[9]
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