Seán Hewitt
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Seán Hewitt (born 1990) is a poet, lecturer, and literary critic. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Seán Hewitt was born in Warrington, UK, to an Irish mother and English father. He studied English at Girton College, Cambridge. Hewitt received his PhD, on the works of J. M. Synge, from the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. He lives in Dublin, where he lectures at Trinity College Dublin. Hewitt was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2019, and won the world's biggest ecopoetry award, the Resurgence Prize, in 2017. He also received a Northern Writers' Award in 2016. Hewitt was listed as one of The Sunday Times "30 under 30" artists in Ireland in 2020. His debut collection of poems, Tongues of Fire, won The Laurel Prize in 2021. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022. Hewitt's debut collection, Tongues of Fire, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. Tongues of Fire was released to critical acclaim. It won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, 2020, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, 2021, and the Dalkey Literary Award (Emerging Writer), 2021. It was Poetry Book of the Month in The Observer, and a Book of the Year in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Spectator, Attitude, and the Irish Independent, and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Sunday Times wrote of Hewitt that "his poetry will stand the test of time". Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Max Porter describes Hewitt as "an exquisitely calm and insightful lyric poet, reverential in nature and gorgeously wise in the field of human drama." Tongues of Fire is a book of lyric poetry, and explores queer sexuality, grief, and the natural world. Hewitt's book-length study of the Irish playwright, poet and travel writer J. M. Synge, J.M. Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism, was published by Oxford University Press. Hewitt's memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, was published in 2022. Hewitt's first novel, Open, Heaven, was published in 2025 by Alfred A. Knopf in New York and by Jonathan Cape in London. Source: Wikipedia.org
