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Winners of Swift Satire Competition 2001
| First prize IEP £1500 Robert
A. S. Fox, New South Wales |
"Dr.Sawbones",
"Satanic Verses" and "the sound bite" (poems) |
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Joint Second prize IEP £500
Max McGowan, Cork (£250) and |
"The
Dark One" (poem) |
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| Iggy McGovern, Dublin (£250) |
"After
Eights" and "Time
Up" (poems) |
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Third prize IEP£200
David Butler |
"Virus"
(short story) |
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| Robert A. S. Fox |
Robert Fox was born in Melbourne
in 1943. From an early age he availed himself of a classical education
by reading widely, but more particularly in literature, mathematics
and philosophy. At the University of Melbourne he studied mathematics
and philosophy and from 1971 to 1979 he lectured in philosophy of
education at the University of Western Australia. He left the University
in 1979 to live in India for some years with a spiritual teacher.
He subsequently worked as an electrician, researcher and proof-reader
whilst writing serious and satirical articles on social issues, badgering
bureaucrats and making unwelcome submissions to official enquiries.
He has two grown up daughters, and lives in Byron Bay on the north
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| Iggy McGovern |
| Iggy
McGovern was born in Coleraine, Northern Ireland and now lives in
Dublin where he teaches Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. His poetry
has been published in poetry magazines in Ireland and Britain and
his awards include the McCrea Literary Award and the Hennessy Literary
Award for Poetry. |
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| Max McGowan |
Max
McGowan was born in Cobh, Co. Cork (before the Punic Wards!). He was,
inter alia, hotel manager, college lecturer and UN expert/consultant
and has travelled to and lived in many countries mostly in Asia and
Africa.
Max has written plays for stage and radio, short stories, poems, scripts
for street theatre and cabaret, some broadcast some presented, some
published. Max's work has been broadcast on Sunday Miscellany and
won awards in the Francis McManus and PJ O'Connor competitions on
RTE, a national Irish TV channel. Max has, in general, lived a life
alternating between quiet desperation and high level rollicking. |
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| David Butler |
| David
Butler was born Dublin in 1964. At present he is completing a PhD.
in Latin American literature at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
David has had several pieces of criticism published, including a satirical
critical essay on 'Hey Diddle Diddle' in West 47 earlier this year.
He has also had poems and fiction published over the last year in
Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, The Burning Bush, The Attic,
The Shop, and College Green (of which he is sub-editor ), and won
this year's Edgeworthston short story contest. |
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