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Niall Williams


Ireland (b.1958)

Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. He studied English and French literature at University College Dublin before graduating with a Master's degree in Modern American Literature. He moved to New York in 1980 where he married Christine Breen, whom he had met while she was a Master's student also at UCD, and took his first job opening boxes of books in Fox and Sutherland's bookshop in Mount Kisco. He later worked as a copywriter for Avon Books in New York City before leaving America with Chris in 1985 to attempt to make a life as a writer. They moved on April 1st to the cottage in west Clare that Chris's grandfather had left eighty years before to find his life in America. His first four books were co-written with Chris and tell of their life together in Kiltumper in west Clare. In 1991 Niall's first play 'The Murphy Initiative' was staged at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His second play, 'A Little Like Paradise' was produced on the Peacock stage of The Abbey Theatre in 1995. His third play, 'The Way You Look Tonight,' was produced by Galway's Druid Theatre Company in 1999.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
November 2024

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Time of the Child
 
Series
Boy
   1. Boy in the World (2007)
   2. Boy and Man (2008)
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Novels
   Four Letters of Love (1997)
   As It Is in Heaven (1999)
   The Way You Look Tonight (2000)
   The Fall of Light (2001)
   Only Say the Word (2005)
   John (2008)
   History of the Rain (2014)
   This Is Happiness (2019)
   Time of the Child (2024)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Unrequited (2006)
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