Paul Durcan

Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. In 1974 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award and, more recently, The Whitbread Prize. His books include The Selected Paul Durcan, edited by Edna Longley, as well as The Berlin Wall Café, Going Home to Russia, and Daddy, Daddy, all published by Blackstaff. A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems, was published by The Harvill Press, London and The Blackstaff Press in 1993. This was followed by Christmas Day, Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil and Cries of an Irish Caveman, all published by Harvill.  In 2003, New Island published Paul Durcan's Diary in conjunction with RTÉ Radio. He has since published The Art of Life, The Laughter of Mothers and Life is a Dream: Forty Years of Reading Poems 1967-2007, all with Harvill.

A member of Aosdána, Paul Durcan lives in Dublin.