The Letters of John McGahern

John McGahern was born in Dublin in 1934 and brought up in the West of Ireland. He was a graduate of University College, Dublin. He worked as a Primary School teacher and held various academic posts at universities in Britain, Ireland and America. He was the author of six highly acclaimed novels and four collections of short stories, and was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship, the American-Irish Award, the Prix Etrangère Ecureuil and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Amongst Women, which won both the GPA and the Irish TimesAward, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a four-part BBC television series. McGahern died in 2006.

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The collected letters of John McGahern, 'arguably the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.' (Guardian)