Benedict Kiely - b. 1919
Ben Kiely grew up in County Tyrone, one of the northern counties of Ireland then, as now, occupied by the British Army. Though his ties to the North remain strong, he found his way to the cosmopolitan life of Dublin as a Jesuit novice and then discovered his true calling as a storyteller. That he h...
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| Publicat a: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/jsse, |
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Journal of the Short Story in English
2008
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | Ben Kiely grew up in County Tyrone, one of the northern counties of Ireland then, as now, occupied by the British Army. Though his ties to the North remain strong, he found his way to the cosmopolitan life of Dublin as a Jesuit novice and then discovered his true calling as a storyteller. That he has lectured, written criticism, and worked as a journalist never interfered with the writer of fiction; everything he wrote was a narrative, from Land Without Stars: A Novel (1946) to Drink To The ... |
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