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Conor O'Callaghan
Conor O’Callaghan was born in Newry, County Down, in 1968, and grew up in Dundalk. The History of Rain, published by The Gallery Press in 1993, was shortlisted for the Forward ‘Best First Collectio...view moreConor O’Callaghan was born in Newry, County Down, in 1968, and grew up in Dundalk. The History of Rain, published by The Gallery Press in 1993, was shortlisted for the Forward ‘Best First Collection’ Prize and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award.
Seatown was published in 1999, Fiction, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, appeared in April 2005. The Sun King, his fourth collection was published in 2013. He has been co-holder of the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies, Villanova University. From 2005-2010 he was poet-in-residence at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
Conor O’Callaghan lives in Manchester and currently works both as a senior lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and as a tutor on distance learning MA at Lancaster University.
His novel, Nothing On Earth (2016), was shortlisted for the Listowel Novel of the Year and was the choice of the Irish Times Book Club in April 2017.view less