Diary of an Ant: Eleven (mainly) Dark Yarns from the Irish Gaelic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781482367140)

Tom疽 Mac S卲mn was born in Dublin, Ireland. A doctoral graduate of Cornell University, he has worked as a biological researcher and university lecturer in the USA and Ireland. An Irish speaker, he is actively involved in the promotion of the language, working as a journalist, as editor of the newspaper Anois and, for many years, he was editor of the literary and current affairs magazine Comhar. His Cinn Lae Seang疂n ("The Diary of an Ant") won the award for best short story collection in the Oireachtas 2005 competition, while the following year his novel An Tionscadal ("The Project") won the main Oireachtas literary award. His poems, stories, articles and translations from Catalan and Spanish have appeared in diverse publications. His work has been translated into many languages, including German, Slovenian, Romanian and Catalan. He now lives and works in Catalonia.