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Theo Dorgan was born on 1953 in Cork, Ireland, is an Irish poet, editor and librettist. Discover Theo Dorgan'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 71 years old?
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Theo Dorgan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer, translator, librettist and documentary screenwriter.
Dorgan was born in Cork in 1953 being the second child born into a family of 8 boys and 8 girls to parents Bertie and Rosemary Dorgan, and was educated in North Monastery School.
He completed a BA in English and Philosophy and a MA in English at University College Cork, after which he tutored and lectured at that University, while simultaneously being Literature Officer with Triskel Arts Centre in Cork.
He was visiting faculty at University of Southern Maine.
He lives in Dublin with his partner, the poet and playwright Paula Meehan.
After Theo Dorgan's first two collections, The Ordinary House of Love and Rosa Mundi, went out of print, Dedalus Press reissued these two titles in a single volume What This Earth Cost Us.
Dorgan has edited The Great Book of Ireland (with Gene Lambert, 1991); Revising the Rising (with Máirín Ní Dhonnachadha, 1991); Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh (Dublin, Four Courts Press, 1996); Watching the River Flow (with Noel Duffy, Dublin, Poetry Ireland/Éigse Éireann, 1999); The Great Book of Gaelic (with Malcolm Maclean, Edinburgh, Canongate, 2002); and The Book of Uncommon Prayer (Dublin, Penguin Ireland, 2007).
He has been the Series Editor of the European Poetry Translation Network publications and Director of the collective translation seminars from which the books arose.
A former Director of Poetry Ireland (Éigse Éireann), Dorgan has worked as a broadcaster of literary programmes on both radio and television.
He was the presenter of Poetry Now on RTÉ Radio 1, and later for RTÉ's TV books programme, Imprint.
He was the scriptwriter for the TV documentary series Hidden Treasures.
Dorgan was awarded the Listowel Prize for Poetry in 1992 and the O'Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Poetry in 2010.
He has also published selected poems in Italian, La Case ai Margini del Mundo, (Faenza, Moby Dick, 1999).
A member of Aosdána, he was appointed as a member of the Arts Council (An Chomhairle Ealaíon) from 2003 to 2008.
His Jason and the Argonauts, set to music by Howard Goodall, was commissioned by and premiered in the Royal Albert Hall in 2004.
A series of text pieces by Dorgan feature in the dance musical Riverdance; he was specially commissioned to create them for the theatrical show.
He also served on the board of Cork European Capital of Culture 2005.
He was awarded the 2015 Poetry Now Award for Nine Bright Shiners.
