Timothy O'Grady is the author of the novel Motherland, which won the David Higham award for the best first novel in 1989. He has worked extensively in the theatre as a writer, actor and script editor and wrote the screenplay Twenty Years a-Growing, adapted from the book by Maurice O'Sullivan and screenplay by Dylan Thomas. O'Grady's work for radio includes The Young Americans, a five part series for BBC Radio Three, which he wrote and presented. His fiction, articles and reviews have been published in numerous newspapers and journals including The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Literary Review and Time Out, The New Statesman and The Irish Press.
