Cathal Ó Searcaigh

Cathal Ó Searcaigh is from the Donegal Gaeltacht and spends several months every year in Nepal. His first prose work, Seal i Neipeal, is an account of his time there. Several of his poetry collections have been translated into French, Breton, Italian, German, Russian, Danish and Japanese, and have also been set to music. Ó Searcaigh's selected poems, Ag Tnúth leis an tSolas: 1975-2000, won the Irish Times Irish language literature prize in 2001. Ó Searcaigh is currently working on his memoirs. He is a member of Aosdána.