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Desmond Barry was born on 1954 in Merthyr Tydfil, United Kingdom, is a British writer. Discover Desmond Barry's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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1954

Desmond Barry (born 1954) is a Welsh author.

Barry was born in Merthyr Tydfil and raised on the town's Gurnos estate.

He gained a place at University College London.

1986

After his degree, he taught English in Italy and then in 1986 moved to the USA where he did a bewildering array of jobs before embarking on a writing programme at Columbia University.

While there, he studied under Booker prize–winner Peter Carey, and worked as Carey’s researcher on his novel Jack Maggs.

1999

From 1999 to 2001, in the summer months, Barry worked in Tibet as part of a non-governmental organisation.

2001

When he began writing his own debut novel, The Chivalry of Crime (Jonathan Cape, 2001), Barry did exhaustive research on Jesse James, and decided to study Stanislavski's 'system' of acting in order to relate better to the psychological aspects of James and his cohorts.

The Chivalry of Crime (Jonathan Cape, 2001)

2002

The Chivalry of Crime was voted Best First Novel of the Year by the Western Writers of America and was shortlisted for the 2002 Wales Book of the Year Award.

A Bloody Good Friday (Jonathan Cape, 2002) is set in his home town in 1977.

A Bloody Good Friday (Jonathan Cape, 2002)

2004

Cressida’s Bed (Jonathan Cape, 2004) made the 2005 Wales Book of the Year Long List.

His shorter prose has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, The Big Issue and in the anthologies Wales, Half Welsh (Bloomsbury, 2004), London Noir (Serpent’s Tail, 2006) and Sea Stories (National Maritime Museum, 2007).

Cressida’s Bed (Jonathan Cape, 2004)

Contributed to:

Wales, Half Welsh (Bloomsbury, 2004)

2006

He won a Creative Wales Award in 2006 for the Far South Project, which is ongoing.

London Noir (Serpent’s Tail, 2006)

2007

His play Jetlag was the Cardiff part of Three Cities, a trilogy of plays written in collaboration with writers from Buenos Aires and Melbourne and performed in Cardiff in 2007 at Chapter Arts Centre.

Barry worked with Uruguayan photographer, Diego Vidart, to produce 'The Falkland Diaries ’, an exhibition at the Wales Millennium Centre in 2007.

Sea Stories (National Maritime Museum, 2007)

2008

Merthyr Writing! (Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, 2008)

Nonfiction

3:AM Magazine

The Circular Church (or books, guns and the report on the blind) Words by Des Barry; Photography by Diego Vidart

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-circular-church-or-books-guns-and-the-report-on-the-blind/

The Sauna King. Words by Des Barry; Photography by Kristian Helgesen

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-sauna-king/

William Burroughs and the Dreamscapes of the Dalai Lama

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/william-burroughs-and-the-dreamscapes-of-the-dalai-lama/

Academi (Welsh literature promotion)

Wales Arts International

British Council

2012

Smith, Dai, Top 10 Welsh Alternatives to Dylan Thomas, The Guardian, 12/2/06