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Marina Carr


Marina Carr was born in 1964 and grew up in County Offaly. She graduated from UCD in 1987. Early plays include Low in the Dark, This Love Thing and Ullaloo. The Gallery Press publishes The Mai, which won best new play award at the Dublin Theatre Festival; Portia Coughlan (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 1997), By The Bog of Cats (1998, Irish Times/ ESB Award for Best New Play), On Raftery’s Hill (2000), Ariel (2002), Woman and Scarecrow (2007), The Cordelia Dream (2008), Marble (2009), 16 Possible Glimpses (2011) and Hecuba (September 2015). Her awards include The Irish Times Best New Play Award, the Dublin Theatre Festival Best New Play Award 1994, a Macauley Fellowship, a Hennessey Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and an E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her award-winning plays—largely poetic tragedies of rural Irish domestic life—have been produced around the world. Her works have been translated into French, German, and Norwegian. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College, the Abbey Theatre, Princeton University and is currently the first John McGahern Writer-in-Residence in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and DCU. Marina Carr was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2003. She is a member of Aosdána and lives in Kerry.

Books by Marina Carr
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The Mai, The

Marble

16 Possible Glimpses

On Raftery's Hill

16 Possible Glimpses

On Raftery's Hill

The Mai

Marble

Portia Coughlan
New edition

The Cordelia Dream

By the Bog of Cats

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