Falling Memory

Biografia autore

• Chris Arthur

  ARTHUR, CHRIS was born in Belfast in 1955, and lived for many years in Lisburn, County Antrim. His three books of essays are Irish Nocturnes (Aurora, Colorado, The
  Davies Group, 1999); Irish Willow (The Davies Group, 2002); and Irish Haiku (The Davies Group, 2005). A selection of his poetry was included in Lagan Press’s Poetry
  Introductions 1 (2004).His awards include the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Award, the Akergarasu Haya International Essay Prize, the Gandhi Society’s Aitchtey Memorial Essay Prize, and the Palgrave Macmillan/Times Higher Education Supplement Writing Prize in the Humanities. A member of Irish PEN and the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, he lived in Scotland for over a decade, holding university
  fellowships in St Andrews and Edinburgh. In 1989 he moved to Wales to take up a lectureship at the University of Wales, Lampeter.