Tomás Mac Síomóin (19 February 1938 – 17 February 2022) was an Irish doctoral graduate of Cornell University, New York, who worked as a biological researcher and university lecturer in the US and Ireland. He worked as a journalist, as editor of the newspaper Anois and for many years was editor of the literary and current affairs magazine, Comhar. He wrote in Irish and published both poetry and fiction in that language.

Biography

He was born in Dublin. His story Cinn Lae Seangáin (“The Diary of an Ant”) won the award for best short story collection in the Oireachtas 2005 competition, while in the following year his novel An Tionscadal (“The Project”) won the main Oireachtas literary award. His poems, stories, articles and translations from Catalan and Spanish have appeared in diverse publications. His novel, Ceallaigh (2009), was written in Cuba; it challenges some common assumptions about contemporary Cuban life and history. His work has been translated into many languages, most recently into Slovenian, Romanian and Catalan. He lived and worked since circa 1998 in Catalonia. Tomás Mac Síomóin died on 17 February 2022, at the age of 83.

Published works

Short stories

Poetry

Novels

Non-fiction

Anthologies

Translations

Essays