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Gerard Beirne is an award-winning novelist, poet and short-story writer. He previously published three novels, three books of poetry and a collection of short stories. He taught English literature and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick and now teaches at the ATU in Sligo, Ireland. His short story collection, In A Time Of Drought And Hunger was shortlisted for The Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short stories published in Canada. Gerard Beirne is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland.
"""A deft and moving tale of love and loss on life's cold margins, in which character is fate, and landscape is character."" -- Ed O'Loughlin, Giller Finalist & Man Booker Prize nominee ""Clever writing and pacing make this story not only believable but serve to draw the reader in as all the characters are likeable in their way, but all have their flaws, cracks in their characters... One can tell when good writing is unfolding right before their eyes."" -- https: //miramichireader.ca/ ""This is a beautifully cadenced novel of loneliness and desire. The evocation of the physical world is wonderful, the synthesis of the weather of the heart and the elemental landscape is stunning. Prose of grace and clarity is ballasted with real narrative drive as past ghosts emerge. Powerful, evocative, haunting, The Thickness of Ice is an extraordinary novel."" -- Eoin McNamee, screenwriter, Longlisted for Man Booker Prize for Blue Tango, author of 19 novels ""By far the most memorable novel of the year for me was Gerard Beirne's wonderful The Eskimo in the Net... Just like the central character, Jim Gallagher, the reader is drawn into the depths of both a mystery and a personal voyage of discovery ... Wonderful clear prose and sensitive observation in a tough environment make this an outstanding debut work, scandalously ignored by this year's Man Booker judges."" --Graham Ball, Daily Express ""It is a masterpiece in cadence, rhythm, metaphor, symbolism. His characters are rich in detail even as we get so few details, and he has created a landscape so vivid in its emptiness and coldness, and at the same time so mythical, that I was awestruck page after page. Chapter 18 is an opera."" --Leila Marshy, Author of The Philistine About Beirne's first novel: ""Beirne's descriptive writing is superb. He evokes the atmosphere of the town brilliantly, along with the surrounding landscape..."" --Books Ireland About Beirne's first novel: ""Wonderful clear prose and sensitive observation in a tough environment make this an outstanding debut work, scandalously ignored by this year's Man Booker judges."" --Daily Express"
