Back to Blog
![]() His first breakthrough was with his book, Ayuamarca, written under his full name instead of his pen name. He thought writing children's books would be a nice idea for the future but adult books were his main focus. Mute Pursuit was never published, but Shan loved the writing experience, so he started focusing on novels more and not on short stories.Īll of Shan's first books were oriented to adults. ![]() He finished his first novel at age seventeen. His first success came to him at age fifteen, when he was a runner-up in a TV script-writing competition for Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland, with a dark comedy story entitled A Day in the Morgue. He bought his first typewriter when he was fourteen and wrote several short stories, comic scripts, and books that he never finished. He then travelled back to London to study Sociology and English at Roehampton University.ĭarren worked for a cable television company in Limerick for a few years and then decided to become a full-time writer. He received his primary education in Askeaton, and went to secondary school at Copsewood College in Pallaskenry. When he was six, he moved, with his parents and younger brother, to Limerick, Ireland, were he had been living ever since. ![]() ![]() At the age of three he started school at English Martyr's in London. He lives in Pallaskenry, County Limerick, in Ireland. Darren OShaughnessy was born on July 2, 1972, in St Thomas' Hospital, London, England. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |