Interview with Juan José Delaney: Irish-Argentine Literature, A Personal Account as a Writer

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  DELANEY, JUAN JOSÉ was born in Buenos Aires in 1954. He belongs to a large Irish-Argentine family and holds the chair in Twentieth Century Argentine Literature at the Universidad del Salvador. He is a fiction writer and essayist. He published Tréboles del sur (short stories, 1994) the novel Moira Sullivan (1999) and, recently, a biography of Marco Denevi: Marco Denevi y la sacra ceremonia de la escritura. A doctoral candidate in Modern Languages, at present Delaney is working on literary and linguistic aspects of the Irish immigration process in Argentina.