awards nationality notableworks birth_date genre article_title name occupation alma_mater
rooney prize 1980 prize for irish literature 1977 john llewellyn rhys irish '' the ikon-maker '' 10 december 1950 novel , play , short story , travel writing desmond hogan
 desmond hogan writer university college dublin -lrb- ucd -rrb-
desmond hogan

desmond hogan -lrb- born 10 december 1950 -rrb- is an irish writer .
awarded the 1977 rooney prize for irish literature and 1980 john llewellyn rhys prize , his oeuvre comprises novels , plays , short stories and travel writing .
the `` cork examiner '' said : `` like no other irish writer just now , hogan sets down what it 's like to be a disturbed child of what seems a godforsaken country in these troubled times . ''
the `` irish independent '' said he is `` to be commended for the fidelity and affection he shows to the lonely and the downtrodden . ''
`` the boston globe '' said there `` is something mannered in hogan 's prose , which is festooned with exotic imagery and scattered in sentence fragments . ''
a contemporary of bruce chatwin , ian mcewan , peter carey , salman rushdie and a close friend of kazuo ishiguro , he has since vanished off the literary scene .
