New Book by Research Fellow ‘Flanneur’ at St Mary’s

A new book compiling the shorter fiction of Irish author Flann O’Brien, including rare pieces and new translations from the Irish, is to be published this August 2013. The single volume book, The Short Fiction of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, June 2013), has been co-edited by Dr Keith Hopper, self-confessed ‘Flanneur’ and Research Fellow at the Centre for Irish Studies at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham with Prof Neil Murphy and translations by Jack Fennell. It features a selection of his most important short stories, as well as the text of his last unfinished novel, Slattery’s Sago Saga. There are also new translations of several stories originally published in Irish along with some other rare pieces, which have been collected in this book for the first time. As well as his Fellowship at St Mary’s, Dr Hopper also teaches Literature and Film Studies at Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education. He is the author of Flann O’Brien: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Post-modernist (revised edition 2009); general editor of the twelve-volume Ireland into Film series (2001–7); and co-editor (with Neil Murphy and Ondřej Pilný) of a special “Neglected Irish Fiction” issue of Litteraria Pragensia (2012). He is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. Prof Neil Murphy teaches at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the author of Irish Fiction and Postmodern Doubt (2004) and editor of Aidan Higgins: The Fragility of Form (2009). He co-edited (with Keith Hopper) the special Flann O’Brien centenary issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction (2011), and has published articles and book chapters on contemporary fiction, Irish writing, and theories of reading.