Novelist Dermot Healy dies at 66

Irish novelist and playwright, Dermot Healy, has died at the age of 66.

Novelist Dermot Healy dies at 66

Irish novelist and playwright, Dermot Healy, has died at the age of 66.

His works included Banished Misfortune, The Bend for Home and Fighting with Shadows and was admired by fellow writers such Seamus Heaney, Eugene McCabe and Roddy Doyle.

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