Dermot Bolger joins 'The 32: An Anthology of Working Class Voices'

The next author in 'The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working Class Voices', I'm honoured to say, is Dermot Bolger. Born in Dublin in 1959, this poet, playwright and novelist worked as a factory hand, library assistant and small press publisher before settling for the precious life of a full time writer in 1984. He is the author of fourteen novels, his plays have received the Samuel Beckett Award, been performed as far away as China and published by Penguin and Methuen. He is also the author of nine poetry collections.

At the age of eighteen Bolger established Raven Arts Press, which became one of Ireland’s most innovative publishing houses. It released debut novels by Patrick McCabe and Eoin McNamee; debut poetry collections by poets like Sara Berkeley and Matthew Sweeney; first non-fiction books by writers like Colm Tóibín and Fintan O’Toole and major books by such writers as Sebastian Barry, Jennifer Johnston and Paul Durcan. In 1992 Dermot Bolger closed Raven Arts Press to help co-found New Island Books, which has become a leading Irish publisher.

You will read new work by Dermot Bolger as well 16 new working class writers form all over the island of Ireland if we reach target.

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