Seán Hewitt was born in Warrington in 1990. His debut collection of poems, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize, and his memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His study of the Irish writer J.M. Synge, J.M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. He lives in Dublin, where he teaches at Trinity College Dublin.
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