![]() On his death in 2006, McGahern was celebrated by The Guardian as 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett. McGahern held numerous academic posts internationally and was awarded honours including the Irish-American Foundation Award, an Irish PEN Award, the Prix Ecureuil de Litterature Etrangere and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Add to Wish List Link to this Book Add to Bookbag Sell this Book Buy it at Amazon Compare Prices. ![]() ![]() The author of six acclaimed novels and four story collections, his novel Amongst Women, was shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize and made into a BBC TV series. 1, 1990 McGahern (High Ground, 1987 The Pornographer, 1979, etc. He moved to London to continue writing and met his future wife, Madeline Green, in 1967, with whom he remained until his death in 2006. AMONGST WOMEN by John McGahern RELEASE DATE: Sept. John BanvilleMcGahern brings us that tonic gift of the. ![]() An outstanding student, McGahern studied at University College Dublin and became a teacher, but was dismissed when his controversial second novel, The Dark, was banned by the Irish Censorship Board. Hilary MantelJohn McGahern is the Irish novelist everyone should read. The son of a Garda sergeant who had served as an IRA volunteer in the Irish War of Independence, he was devastated by his mother's death when he was nine. John McGahern Paperback Import, Januby John McGahern (Author) 280 ratings Hardcover 5.98 6 Used from 2.03 1 Collectible from 26. ![]() Born in 1934, John McGahern was the eldest of seven children, raised on a farm in the West of Ireland. ![]()
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