Desmond Hogan

Galway City Council Writer in Residence Programme presents Desmond Hogan, reading from a new prose work, never seen or heard before in the City Museum on Saturday 3 November.

This exclusive reading is from a writer described by Neil Jordan as "the real thing - a writer of great originality, dramatic flair, linguistic invention - who remakes the world every time he puts pen to paper."

Desmond Hogan was born in Ballinasloe in 1950 and studied at Garbally and UCD. In an outstanding writing career, he has published five acclaimed novels, four groundbreaking collections of stories and a brilliant volume of travel writings. In 1971 he won the Hennessy Award and in 1977 the Rooney Prize for Literature. He won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1980 and was awarded the DAAD Fellowship in Berlin in 1991. In 1989 he was writer in residence at the Alabama and in 1997 taught at the University of California, San Diego.

For further information, phone 091-536546. Admission is free and all are welcome.

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