Bernard Loughlin

Bernard Loughlin was born in 1950 in Belfast, and attended the Queen's University there. After working at various jobs around Europe, and then spending a year in Farrera de Pallars in the Catalan Pyrenees, he and his wife Mary Rogan returned to Ireland. In 1981 he became the first Resident Director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig in County Monaghan, the well-known artists' retreat. In 1999 Bernard and Mary moved back to Farrera, where they continue to live.

Bernard's first book, In the High Pyrenees, was published by Penguin 2004. He has just delivered his second book, a mysterious and resonant thriller set in the High Pyrenees of Spain where he lives.

Bernard has a high profile in Ireland as the former and first curator of Anna Macarig, the famous Tyrone Guthrie writing Centre.

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Agent: Geraldine Cooke