Hugo Hamilton: 'One of the problems for novelists now is that TV series are so good'

Hugo Hamilton tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his grá for Irish writing, why Tom Murphy’s plays appeal to him and how shows like Peaky Blinders changed storytelling

Hugo Hamilton.

Hugo Hamilton, 68, grew up in Dublin. His childhood memoir The Speckled People (2003) is a classic of the genre. It tells the story of a confused young boy, the son of a German mother and an ardent nationalist father who forbade his children to speak English at home; only Irish and German were allowed. His new novel The Pages is published by Fourth Estate.

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