Susan Knight


Gomorrah

Susan Knight's novel, a darkly comic fable of modern times, is illustrated with forty-six black and white illustrations.

Fairground Press is a new imprint, founded in June 2007, and dedicated to the publication of quality and off-beat fiction.

Its first novel, Gomorrah, launched October 2007, is a unique collaboration between author Susan Knight and illustrator Marta Wakula.

Susan is the author of two earlier novels and one non-fiction book. She has received several prizes for her short stories and plays, notably the James Plunkett memorial award in 2004 and the Bryan McMahon short story award in 2007. She has featured on both Sunday Miscellany and Lyric FM's the Quiet Quarter. She lives in Dublin.

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bio:
Susan was born in Beckenham, Kent in 1947.
She said: when people say "Kent -- the garden of England" they don't mean Beckenham, which was a dreary suburb of semi-detached houses at least in that part where I lived between the evocatively named Eden Park and Elmer's End.
People were genteel in that oppressively lower middle class way that cultivates its own garden, washes its cars every Sunday, and keeps itself to itself. My poor mother was Danish, from a jolly family who liked to sit up all night drinking schnapps and playing cards.
My father was comfortably large, lazy and smoked a pipe. He had his own car hire business (two cars) and, an item in the local paper once said that on the occasion of the firm's fiftieth anniversary, had driven such celebrities as Bob Monkhouse and Hugh Bean.
She eventually met the Irish journalist Des Crowley, who also eventually become her husband.
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