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Dermot Healy is an Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer. A member of Aosdána, Healy is also part of its governing body, the Toscaireacht. Born in Finnea, County Westmeath, he lives in County Sligo, and has been described variously as a "master", a "Celtic Hemingway" and as "Ireland's finest living novelist".
Often overlooked by North American readers due to his relatively low public profile, Healy's work is admired by his Irish literary predecessors, peers and successors alike, many of whom idolise him—among the writers to have spoken highly of him are Seamus Heaney, Eugene McCabe, Roddy Doyle, Patrick McCabe and Anne Enright.
Often overlooked for the more mainstream awards throughout his career, Healy has won the Hennessy Award, the Tom Gallon Award, and the Encore Award. In 2011, he was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award for his 2010 poetry collection, A Fool's Errand. Long Time, No See was selected for the International IMPAC Literary Award, the world's most valuable literary award for a single work in the English language, by libraries in Russia and Norway.
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