Aidan Higgins | |
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Born | Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland | 3 March 1927
Died | 27 December 2015 (aged 88) Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland |
Occupation | Writer |
Genre | Fiction |
Literary movement | Modernism |
Notable awards | James Tait Black Memorial Prize |
Spouse | Alannah Hopkin |
Aidan Higgins (3 March 1927 – 27 December 2015) was an Irish writer. He wrote short stories, travel pieces, radio dramas and novels.[1] Among his published works are Langrishe, Go Down (1966), Balcony of Europe (1972) and the biographical Dog Days (1998). His writing is characterised by non-conventional foreign settings and a stream of consciousness narrative mode.[2] Most of his early fiction is autobiographical – "like slug trails, all the fiction happened."[3]