Paying tribute to Booker Prize winner who drowned in West Cork 40 years ago
An event at the West Cork Literary Festival recalls JG Farrell, the Booker Prize winner who drowned in the area, writes .
It will be 40 years next month since the death of JG Farrell. A more unfortunate ending it is hard to imagine. Farrell was a two-time Booker Prize winner (one awarded posthumously), and possibly the most promising writer of a gilded generation of British writers. One of his greatest fans was his contemporary Salmon Rushdie.
