Staring at Lakes: A Memoir of Love, Melancholy and Magical Thinking

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Michael Harding

Michael Harding was born 1953 in County Cavan. He is an Irish short-story writer, novelist, and playwright and member of Aosdana, the National Academy for Creative Artists. He has published three novels - Priest, The Trouble With Sarah Gullion, Bird in the Snow - and numerous plays and is a columnist with The Irish Times. Michael has worked in theatre as an actor, director and writer. He is most widely known as the author of such plays as Strawboys, Una Pooka, Misogynist, Hubert Murray's Widow, Sour Grapes, and Amazing Grace, all produced by the Abbey Theatre, and more than a dozen other plays for leading Irish Companies, including The Kiss, Talking Through his Hat, and Swallow. He has directed for The Abbey Theatre, The Project Arts Centre, and Red Kettle, and has worked as a performer with many distinguished theatre companies such as Siamsa Tire, Blue Raincoat, The Abbey Theatre and Gare St. Lazare.

He was Writer in Association with The National Theatre in 1993, and Writer Fellow at Trinity College in 2001, and has received numerous awards for his theatre work, including The Stewart Parker Award, The Bank of Ireland RTE Award, and Best Male Performer at Dublin Theatre Fringe Festival. His most recent work The Tinker's Curse toured Ireland in 2011, and STARING AT LAKES, a memoir is scheduled for publication in 2013.

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