About Denis Sampson
Denis Sampson was a writer.
Denis Sampson is an Irish writer and literary critic who was born in Whitegate, County Clare in Ireland in 1948 and now lives in Montreal, Canada. In 2015 he wrote a memoir, A Migrant Life, about his rural Irish childhood and his passion for books. He is review editor for the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and an English teacher at Vanier College, Montreal.
His published works include studies of the works of John McGahern and of Brian Moore.
Sampson has a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in English language and literature from University College, Dublin and a PhD in English language and literature from McGill University, Montreal.
He is a cousin of Irish novelist Edna O'Brien. A Migrant Heart (2014), 238pp. Montreal: Linda Leith Publishing
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