Cunningham, Peter

biography

Peter Cunningham (born 1947 in Waterford) is an Irish novelist and newspaper columnist, who writes under the pennames Peter Lauder and Peter Wilben. His debut novel, Noble Lord, was published in New York in 1986 under the Stein&Day Pub imprint. It has been followed by a range of historical novels: The Sea and the Silence (2009), Tapes of the River Delta (1995), Consequences of the Heart (1998), Love in One Edition (2001), and a controversial bestseller The Taoiseach (2003). Under the pseudonym Peter Wilben, he has published the Joe Grace mystery thrillers series.

In his satirical novel Capital Sins (2011), which deals with the collapse of the Irish economy during financial crisis in 2008, the writer mentions the presence of Polish migrants in Ireland.

His novel The Sea and the Silence (translated into French as La Mer Et La Silence) won him the Prix de l’Europe 2013, the Prix Caillou 2013, and was shortlisted for the Prix des Lecteurs du Telégramme. Consequences of the Heart was shortlisted for the Kerry Listowel Writer’s Prize. In 2011, Cunningham won the Cecil Day-Lewis Bursary Award. Peter Cunningham is a member of Aosdána (the Irish Academy for Arts and Letters). He was a judge of the Glen Dimplex Literary Awards and the Bantry Festival Writer’s Prize. He lives in County Kildare.

 

– complied by Karolina Kłos

 

The following are links to websites with information about the author:

http://www.petercunninghambooks.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cunningham_%28Irish_writer%29

http://www.munsterlit.ie/Writer%20pages/Cunningham,%20Peter.html

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/peter-cunningham/

http://www.peterwilben.com/the-joe-grace-series/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7103305.Peter_Cunningham