David Marcus
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David Marcus is an Irish Jewish editor who has been a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish fiction.
Born in County Cork in 1924, Marcus has edited numerous anthologies of Irish fiction and poetry, including the Phoenix Irish Short Stories collections.
Other notable projects include the page New Irish Writing for the Irish Press, which provided a forum for aspiring Irish authors, publishing most of the most important names in Irish fiction and poetry, many for the first time, and in 1986 the novel A Land Not Theirs, a fictionalized account of the experiences of the Cork Jewish community during the Irish War of Independence.
In 2001 Marcus published Oughtobiography - Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish-Jewish person and as a figure in the field of Irish literature.
On June 3, 2005 he was awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University College, Cork[1]
Marcus currently lives in Dublin.
[edit] Bibliography
- Marcus, David (Editor) (1998). Irish Short Stories. Weidenfeld & Nicolson history. ISBN 1-86159-130-6.
Phoenix Irish Short Stories, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003 ISBN 0753817179
[edit] References
- Profile of Marcus at "Irish Writers Online"
