Seán Hewitt was born in 1990, and lives in Dublin. His poetry collection Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape, 2020) won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide (Jonathan Cape, 2022) won The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022,
Seán Hewitt was born in 1990, and lives in Dublin. His poetry collection Tongues of Fire (Jonathan Cape, 2020) won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide (Jonathan Cape, 2022) won The Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2022, and was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and for Foyles’ Book of the Year in Non-Fiction, alongside the RSL Ondaatje Prize and a LAMDBA Literary Award. He teaches at Trinity College Dublin.
