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unusual facts about Seamus Deane


Seamus Deane

He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a founding director of the Field Day Theatre Company.


1997 in Northern Ireland

Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark (published in 1996), is shortlisted for the Booker Prize and wins the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and The Irish Literature Prize.


see also

Val Mulkerns

She is included in several key Irish literature anthologies, including The Field Day Anthology (Edited by Seamus Deane), and The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (edited by Colm Tóibín).