Cormac Millar

Cormac Millar is the writing name of Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, Associate Professor of Italian at Trinity College Dublin. Born in Cork in 1950, Cormac is the son of novelist and children's writer Eilís Dillon, and brother of the poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin. He was chairman of the Dublin Arts Festival in the 1970s; later he served as chairman of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association, and of the Irish Writers' Centre. A former winner of the John Florio Prize, he teaches on two new postgraduate courses in Literary Translation and in Comparative Literature. Recently he was co-editor, with Michael Cronin, of The Languages of Ireland. His crime novel, An Irish Solution, was the first work of fiction to be published by the Penguin Ireland imprint. Penguin has published a second crime novel, The Grounds, also set in Dublin. For further information, please visit the author's website: www.cormacmillar.com.