David Park (writer)
David Park (born 1953) is a novelist from Northern Ireland.[1][2] He grew up in a Protestant working-class family in East Belfast, and wrote seven novels while working as a teacher, before retiring to write full time.[1]
His ninth novel Spies in Canaan, set in Vietnam, was runner-up in the 2023 Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for a novel focusing on travel.[3][4]
Selected publications
[edit]- Oranges from Spain (1990, short stories)
- The Healing (1992)
- The Rye Man (1994)
- Stone Kingdoms (1996)
- The Big Snow (2002)
- Swallowing the Sun (2004)
- The Truth Commissioner (2008)
- Light of Amsterdam (2012)
- The Poets' Wives (2014)
- Gods & Angels (2016)
- Travelling in a Strange Land (2018)
- Spies in Canaan (2022)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sansom, Ian (20 April 2012). "David Park: a life in books". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "David Park". literature.britishcouncil.org. British Council. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ "The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize". Society of Authors. 2023. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
- ^ Self, John (17 May 2022). "Making amends: David Park on loss, regret and youthful idealism". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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