Henry Hudson
Henry Hudson was born in Dublin. A mature graduate of the Samuel Beckett Centre in TCD he is a former winner of the RTE PJ O’Connor Radio Drama Award, The Heinrich Boll Award for Literature, The Listowel Writers Week Playwrights Award and The Best Play Award at the Cork Arts Festival. His novel Beyond Pulditch Gates was published in 2001 and a French translation Derriere Les Grilles de Pulditch in 2007. An E version, under the title Pulditch and his second novel Poor lamb, Poor Lamb are available on Amazon Kindle. He has written stage and radio plays, along with a collection of poetry and short stories. Having worked most of his life in the power industry he has an abiding interest in preserving and celebrating the unique working-class history and culture of his native city.