Hugo Hamilton

Bio

Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People, a memoir of his German-Irish childhood in Dublin, where he grew up with a German mother and was prohibited by his revolutionary Irish father from speaking English. His latest novel is The Pages (Knopf) and his short story “Autobahn” was recently published in the New Yorker. Hamilton is a member of the Aosdána and lives in Dublin.