Tim Robinson

Born in Yorkshire, Tim Robinson studied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He later taught in Istanbul and worked in the visual arts in Vienna and London. In 1972, Robinson moved to the Aran Islands, the landscape and psycho-gepgraphy of which he proceeded to chart in his two greatly acclaimed volumes, Stories of Aran: Pilgrimage (1986) and Stories of Aran: Labyrinth (1995). Since 1984, Robinson has lived in Roundstone, Connemara, where he and his wife ran the Folding Landscapes Press. Robsinson also edited J. M. Synge's The Aran Islands for Penguin Books and has published a collection of autobiographical essays, My Time in Space (2001). It was followed by collection of fictions, Tales and Imaginings, in 2002. Connemara: Listening to the Wind, the first volume of a trilogy on Connemara, appeared from Penguin Ireland in 2006, and won the Argosy Prize for non-fiction in the Irish Book Awards. The second volume, Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness, was published in 2008. Tim Robsinon was also a member of Aosdána.