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The Mid-Summer Night’s Gala saw the presentation of the 37th AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award to the Belfast born writer David Park.

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David Park was born in Belfast in 1954
His novels are:

The Healing (London, Jonathan Cape, 1992) - A man is shot dead before the eyes of his young son as they work together in the fields near their home - another victim of the violence in Northern Ireland...

The Rye Man (Jonathan Cape, 1994) - For John Cameron,returning to take up the post of headmaster at his old primary school, is not everything he imaghined it would be. As he tries to come to terms with his wife's miscarriage, he becomes struck by an obsessive need to care for children. Haunted by memories, both in real life and in dreams, events slowly start to slide towards disaster-a disaster he feels only he can avert.

Stone Kingdoms (London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996) - A beautiful,brave novel,Stone Kingdoms will be seen as the definitive comment on the Ulster struggles. It's a story of an Irish girl, Naomi, escaping her life by going to Africa and the contrast of what she finds there compared to her background in Donegal.

The Big Snow (London, Bloomsbury, 2002) -Northern Ireland, 1963, a time of bitter winter: In a house with windows flung defiantly wide, a wife dies before her husband can make his confession...

Swallowing the Sun (Bloomsbury, 2004) - In the museum Martin stands watch over the past. He has travelled a long way from his brutal childhood in the Loyalist heartlands of Belfast and built a life he never imagined he would have - a devoted wife, Alison, two children, Rachel and Tom, a respectable job....

The Truth Commissioner (Bloomsbury, 2008) - Henry Stanfield is pleased with his new title: 'Truth Commissioner' has a pleasing ring to it. But his neutrality, as the product of an Irish Catholic mother and an English Protestant father, is about to be tested...