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Ursula Rani Sarma
The playwright Ursula Rani Sarma is from Co. Clare. Her first plays were produced while she was still at university in Cork. She co-founded Djinn Theatre Company in 1999 and her play 'Touched' was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the same year. Since then, she's been commissioned by The Abbey, The National Theatre in Britain and the Traverse Theatre in Scotland and her plays include 'Wanderings', 'Gift', and the radio plays 'Car Four' for the BBC and 'The Fisherman' for RTE. Her play 'Blue' was nominated for the Stuart Parker Award and helped her win the Irish Times/ESB Theatre Bursary in 2000. |
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Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin of Irish-German parentage. He has brought elements of his dual identity to his novels Surrogate City (London, Faber & Faber,1990); The Last Shot (Faber & Faber, 1991); and The Love Test (Faber & Faber, 1995) His stories were collected as Dublin Where the Palm Trees Grow (Faber & Faber, 1996. His later novels are Headbanger (London, Secker & Warburg, 1996); and Sad Bastard (Secker & Warburg, 1998). He has also published a memoir of his Irish-German childhood, The Speckled People (London, Fourth Estate, 2003). In 1992, he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. He lives in Dublin. |
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