Denis Sampson is an Irish writer and literary critic who was born in

Whitegate, County Clare Whitegate () is a village on the R352 regional road in northeastern County Clare, Ireland. New houses have been built along the main street. Local pubs include 'The Half Barrel' and 'The Nightingale'. It is part of the Catholic parish Mounts ...

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

in 1948 and now lives in Montreal, Canada. In 2015 he wrote a memoir, ''A Migrant Life'', about his rural Irish childhood and his passion for books. He is review editor for the ''Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'' and an English teacher at

Vanier College Vanier College ( French: ''Collège Vanier'') is an English-language public college located in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1970 as the second English-language public college of Quebec's public colle ...

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian ...

. His published works include studies of the works of

John McGahern John McGahern (12 November 1934 – 30 March 2006) was an Irish writer and novelist. He is regarded as one of the most important writers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Known for the detailed dissection of Irish life found in wo ...

and of Brian Moore. Sampson is a cousin of Irish novelist

Edna O'Brien Josephine Edna O'Brien (born 15 December 1930) is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Elected to Aosdána by her fellow artists, she was honoured with the title Saoi in 2015 and the "UK and Ireland Nobel" D ...

Works

*''The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings'' (2016), 192pp.

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, *''A Migrant Heart'' (2014), 238pp. Montreal:

Linda Leith Linda Jane Leith is a Montreal-based writer, translator, and publisher. Biography Leith was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, when her family was living in the linen town of Lisburn. After elementary and secondary schooling in London and Basel, ...

Publishing *''Young John McGahern: Becoming a Novelist'' (2012), 196pp.

, *''Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist'' (1998), 344pp. Dublin: Marino Books *''Outstaring Nature's Eye: The Fiction of John McGahern'' (1993), 263pp.

The Catholic University of America Press The Catholic University of America Press, also known as CUA Press, is the publishing division of The Catholic University of America. Founded on November 14, 1939, and incorporated on July 16, 1941,Roy J. Deferrari ''Memoirs of the Catholic Univer ...

References

External links

Official website

Contributions to ''The Dublin Review''

Contributions to ''Dublin Review of Books''
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