Fred Johnston
1951 -
Born in Belfast in 1951, Fred Johnston is the author of several collections of poetry and novels. He is a co-founder, with Peter Sheridan and Neil Jordan, of the Irish Writers’ Co-operative and helped found Cúirt Literature Festival in Galway. His collections are Measuring Angles (1993), True North (1997), Being Anywhere: New & Selected Poems (2001). Johnston's novels include Atalanta (2000) and Mapping God/Le Tracé de Dieu (2003). He has received numerous awards, among them the Prix de l’Ambassade for translating Michel Martin and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Bursary at the Princess Grace Irish Library in autumn 2004.