David Park

David Park (born 1953) is a novelist and poet from Northern Ireland.

Biography

Park was born in Belfast in 1953. He grew up in a Protestant working-class family in East Belfast, going on to attend Queen's University, Belfast, where to was awarded a BA degree in 1975. during which time he wrote seven novels before retiring to write full time.

Writing career

Park's first book, a collection of short stories entitled Oranges from Spain, was published in 1990, when he was 37 years of age.

Adaptations

In 2016, a filmed adaptation of Park's novel The Truth Commissioner was broadcast by the BBC. The book was adapted for the screen by Eoin O'Callaghan, directed by Declan Recks, and Roger Allam played the lead role. Filming took place in a number of locations in Northern Ireland between February and April 2015.

An adaptation of the same book had previously been broadcast in January 2008 on BBC Radio 4 in the Book at Bedtime slot. The programme was repeated on Radio 4 Extra in May 2011. Another of his books, Travelling in a Strange Land, was adapted for Book at Bedtime in August 2018. That book was also the prompt for a creative collaboration with the photographer Sonya Whitefield, which was published on the web and exhibited at the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, in July 2018.

Awards and nominations

Park was also awarded the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award in 2008.

Works Collections of short stories

Novels

Poetry