Declan Kiberd

Declan Kiberd is Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at University College Dublin and one of Ireland's foremost intellectuals. His post-colonial perspective on the Irish literary tradition in Inventing Ireland (1995) has proven hugely influential in the field of Irish studies worldwide. Kiberd received numerous prizes for this achievement, among them the the Oscar Wilde Award for Literary Achievementand the Irish Times Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 1996. Irish Classics, published in 2000, won the Truman Capote Prize for Best Work of Literary Criticism in the English-Speaking World. Declan Kiberd lives in Dublin.