Hugo Hamilton

Quick Facts

Full Name	Hugo Hamilton
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	Jan 28, 1953(1953-01-28)
Age	71
Birthplace	Dublin
Country	Ireland
Horoscope	Capricorn

Hugo Hamilton Biography

Hugo Hamilton is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on January 28, 1953 in Dublin, Ireland. Hamilton’s mother, a German Roman Catholic, was born in Germany. She traveled to Ireland on a pilgrimage in 1949, married an Irishman and settled in Ireland. His father was a strict nationalist and insisted that his children speak German or Irish. Hugo, however, refused to accept this restriction inwardly. “The English ban made English seem like a challenge to me. He wrote that he spoke English to the walls as a child and that he secretly rehearsed the dialogue he heard outside. He grew up speaking three languages, English, Irish, and German, and never felt like he belonged to any of them.

Luchterhand, a German publisher, published Die redselige Insel (The Island of Talking) in May 2007. Hamilton retraced Heinrich Boll’s journey through Ireland which was to form the basis of the best-selling Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal), in 1957. Anne Enright, a fellow Irish writer, described Hamilton as a writer who “loves spaces between things”: Hamilton’s characters live not only between cultures and languages but also between the past, present, and the future. Hamilton’s 2014 novel Every Single Minute, which was published by Anne Enright, is a fictionalized account of Hamilton’s journey to Berlin with Nuala O Faolain (a memoirist and writer who was also dying from cancer).

Hamilton was a journalist and later a writer of novels and short stories. His first three novels were set in Central Europe. After a year in Berlin as a cultural scholar at DAAD, he wrote his memoir about childhood, The Speckled People (2003). It received wide international acclaim. The story is told through the eyes of the child who sees the English-speaking street outside as a daily migration. It “triumphantly ignores… sentimental nostalgia, victim claims”, wrote Hermione Lee in The Guardian. “The cumulative effect of scrupulous recalling elevates an act of meticulous remembering into art,” stated James Lasdun in The New York Times. The Sailor in the Wardrobe (2006) includes the story.

Hugo Hamilton Net Worth

Hugo Hamilton is one of the richest Writer from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hugo Hamilton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hugo P. Hamilton, born Johannes O hUrmoltaigh on 28 January 1953, is an Irish writer.

Hugo Hamilton resides in Dublin. He was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 1992. In 2004, Sang impur won the Prix Femina etranger for his translation of The Speckled People in French. Il cane che abbaiava all onde, which was the Italian translation, won Premio Giuseppe Berto. In 2011, he adapted his memoir The Speckled People to the stage at Dublin’s Gate Theatre. The new play, The Mariner, was based on his grandfather’s story about returning from the First World War. It ran at the Gate Theatre in 2014. Hamilton, a member of Aosdana, has been awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his exceptional contribution to literature and understanding Germany and Ireland).

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Hugo Ranked on the list of most popular Writer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Hugo Hamilton celebrates birthday on January 28 of every year.