Carlo Gébler

CARLO GÉBLER has worked as a prison and university teacher for many years. He is a novelist, biographer, playwright, memoirist, critic and occasional broadcaster. His novels include The Cure, How to Murder a Man, The Dead Eight and The Innocent of Falkland Road. He also worked with Patrick Maguire (of the Maguire Seven) on his memoir My Father’s Watch. He has considerable experience adapting classical literature for a modern readership, while maintaining, even enhancing, the integrity of the original. His 2019 retelling of Aesop’s Fables, illustrated by Gavin Weston, was published by New Island and Head of Zeus. His most recent book-length work was Tales We Tell Ourselves: A Selection from the Decameron (2020). He is a member of Aosdána. He is married with five children and lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.