Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1953 to an Irish father and German mother. He first worked as a journalist before publishing short stories and novels. As a DAAD scholarship holder, he lived and worked in Berlin for a year in 2001/2002. With his volumes of memoirs Gescheckte Menschen (dt. 2004) and Der Matrose im Schrank (dt. 2006), he also caused a stir in Germany. In 2007, his travel diary in the footsteps of Heinrich Böll, Die redselige Insel, was published, and most recently the novel Palmen in Dublin (dt. 2020). In 2004 he received the Femina Prize for Foreign Literature in Paris. Hugo Hamilton lives with his family in Dublin.