Born in Finnea, County Westmeath, he lives in County Sligo, and has been described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist".
In 2011, Battersby provoked a major scandal when she attempted to dismantle Dermot Healy's novel Long Time, No See.
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