Hugo Hamilton

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Hugo Hamilton (born with Dublin in 1953) is a writer Irish

His/her mother was a German , which travelling to Ireland in 1949 for a Pèlerinage, married Irish and is established in the country. His/her father was a nationalist who insisted that his/her children speak only German or Irish at the house; the English being strictly proscribed.

Become Journalist, it launched out in the writing of news and novels. Its first three novels are held in Central Europe. Then he wrote a whodunnit Headbanger (1996) whose action proceeds with Dublin and who puts in scene a private detective named Pat Coyne. Two years later it makes appear a continuation Sad Bastard .

He was ignored a long time in his own country, until the publication of the first volume of his memories The Speckled People . This book was quickly supported by authors like Colum McCann. It tells there its childhood in Dublin of after war, its relationships surging to his father and his very particular perception of its native tongues.

Literary prizes

In 1992, it received Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
impure Blood , the French translation of The Speckled People received the Prix Femina Étranger in 2003
It duck che abbaiava ale wave , the Italian translation of The Speckled People gained Premio Giuseppe Berto in 2004.

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