Brian Lynch :: Welcome

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Paul Durcan and Brian Lynch, Barcelona, 1968. Click on images to go to full size picture (148 and 106k).

Brian Lynch was born in 1945 in Dublin, where he still lives. His first book of poems 'Endsville' (with Paul Durcan) was published in 1967. 'New and Renewed - Poems 1967-2004' was published by New Island last year.

Amongst his eleven books of verse is a translation, ‘Paul Celan: 65 Poems’ (Raven Arts Press 1986). Samuel Beckett nominated him for election to Aosdána in 1985, praising his 'exceptional talent'. He is also a dramatist for stage, screen and television.

‘Crooked in the Car Seat’ was nominated for Best Play in the 1979 Dublin Theatre Festival. A four-part RTE and Channel 4 TV series about German spies in Ireland, ‘Caught in a Free State’ , won a Jacobs Award and the Banff International TV Festival Best Drama Award in 1984.

‘Love and Rage’, a feature film starring Greta Scacchi and Daniel Craig, was directed by Cathal Black in 1998.

His book on the artist Tony O'Malley (New Island) is now in its third edition.

His first novel, ‘The Winner of Sorrow’ , based on the life of the poet William Cowper (1731-1800), will be published by New Island in the autumn.

BRIAN LYNCH

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