![]() He is editor of the 'Irish Cultural Studies' series for Cork University Press. Set in Derry during the 1950s, the book is narrated by a young boy whose family is haunted by a terrible secret, born out of the political and religious divisions which have blighted the province. ![]() ![]() He is editor of The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991) and began a volume of autobiography which, at the suggestion of Bill Buford, former editor of Granta magazine, became the prize-winning novel Reading in the Dark (1996), which was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize for Fiction, and won the 1996 Guardian Fiction Prize and the 1997 Irish Times Irish Literature Prize for Fiction, as well as the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. He is the author of several works of criticism, most recently Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 (1997), and has published four collections of poetry. He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast and Cambridge University, and now teaches at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Critic, poet and novelist Seamus Deane was born in 1940 in Derry in Northern Ireland. ![]()
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