Strip-Tease by Patricia Nolan

Authors

Patricia Nolan. Strip-Tease. Le Castor Astral. Letres, 2005. 80pp. ISBN 9 782859 205911.

Fred Johnston

FRED JOHNSTON, writer and journalist, was born 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and educated there and Toronto, Canada. He lived for a time in Spain and Algeria. He attended St. Malachy’s College, Belfast and Cregagh Technical College, Belfast; moved to Dublin in 1968 and Galway in 1976 and has read frequently here and in France, including the universities of Toulouse and Poitiers. He delivered papers on contemporary Irish literature North and South (1969-Present), and on the relationship between Irish writers and politics in our time (July 2003). He got a Writers’ Residency at the Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco (2004). He received Hennessy Literary Award for prose in 1972, Sunday Independent Short Story and Poem of the Month awards in 1981 and 1982 respectively, and co-founded, with Neil Jordan and Peter Sheridan, The Irish Writers’ Co-operative in the mid-Seventies. He has published two novels, six collections of poetry (True North, Salmon Poetry, published April 1997), and had three plays performed. A collection of short stories, Keeping The Night Watch, was published in Summer (1998). He has written a novel set in North Africa (with literary agents Lora Fountain & Associates, Paris), a new short story collection, a novel, Atalanta (2000); Being Anywhere – New & Selected Poems (2002).