Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast where she continues to live. Among the accolades she has received are the Rooney Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and an ...lihat lebih banyakMedbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast where she continues to live. Among the accolades she has received are the Rooney Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Aberdeen.
A member of Aosdána (the Irish Association to honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in Ireland) she has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University, Belfast, the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and Trinity College, Dublin.
The Gallery Press has published more than a dozen of her books, among them The Flower Master and Other Poems, Marconi’s Cottage, Captain Lavender, Shelmalier and The High Caul Cap.lihat lebih sedikit