![]() Following a year spent in Berlin on a DAAD cultural scholarship, he completed his memoir of childhood, The Speckled People (2003), which went on to achieve widespread international acclaim. His first three novels were set in Central Europe. Hamilton became a journalist, and then a writer of short stories and novels. As a consequence of this, he grew up with three languages – English, Irish and German – and a sense of never really belonging to any: "There were no other children like me, no ethnic groups that I could attach myself to". Even as a child I spoke to the walls in English and secretly rehearsed dialogue I heard outside," he wrote later. ![]() "The prohibition against English made me see that language as a challenge. His father was a strict nationalist who insisted that his children should speak only German or Irish, but not English, a prohibition the young Hugo resisted inwardly. Hamilton's mother was a German Roman Catholic who travelled to Ireland in 1949 on a pilgrimage, married an Irishman, and settled in the country. Hamilton has written plays, short stories, novels and memoirs. Hamilton was born and raised in Dublin with an Irish father and a German mother. Hamilton (born Johannes Ó hUrmoltaigh, 28 January 1953) is an Irish writer. ![]() Novel “The Pages”(Knopf 2022), Memoir “The Speckled people” ![]()
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