David Butler (author)


David Butler is an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet and actor. He has won several literary prizes, such as the Ted McNulty Award from Poetry Ireland and the Féile Filíochta International Award and the Fish Short Story Award.

Reception

Butler's work has been generally well received by critics, with a reviewer for the Sunday Times describing the main character of The Judas Kiss as being "among the more outlandishly repulsive creations of recent Irish fiction." Author Pat McCabe wrote of City of Dis, which was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2015, “David Butler's compelling mythic, metaphysical X-ray is beautifully written and ought to cement his already growing reputation.” while for the Kirkus Review, the award-winning novel is “A dark romp featuring delightfully crackling dialogue and the mental gymnastics of a protagonist so on edge he tries to silence a yowling cat with poison.”

Awards and honors

Two-times' winner of the Maria Edgeworth Short Story Award

Fiction

  • The Last European novel
  • The Judas Kiss novel
  • No Greater Love short stories
  • City of Dis novel
  • Fugitive short stories
  • Prague 1938 novel under pen-name Dara Kavanagh
  • Jabberwock novel under pen-name Dara Kavanagh
  • White Spirits short stories
  • Scorched Earth novel under pen-name Dara Kavanagh

    Poetry

  • Selected Poems: Fernano Pessoa
  • Via Crucis
  • All the Barbaric Glass
  • ''Liffey Sequence''

    Non-Fiction

  • An Aid to Reading Ulysses
  • ''Joyce / Pessoa: The Mirror and the Mask''