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Carl Tighe Biography
· The Politics of Literature: Polish Writers and Communism 1945-89 (University of Wales Press, 1999)
Carl Tighe (born 26 April 1950 – May 8, 2020) was a prolific British writer, academic, essayist, novelist, and poet.
He started writing poems and short stories as a teenager, and had some published in Ambit magazine; an influence was J G Ballard and this led to him applying to study English Literature at Swansea University where he graduated in 1973. On graduation, he found it difficult to gain permanent employment held a variety of low-paid jobs, including gutting and cleaning fish, working as a Red Coat at Butlin’s and lavatory attendant at a mental hospital to get him by. During this time he got an offer to teach English in Poland and went to Wrocław and Gdańsk for two years, taking the train through West and East Germany. He returned to Poland during 1980-81, where he taught at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and helped monitor foreign radio for Solidarność. Upon returning from Poland, he moved to Cardiff and started freelance writing. He wrote plays for community theater, articles for magazines, and history books on Gdansk to earn a living. He left Wales in 1988 to teach for the extramural department at Manchester University.
Work in Progress, a radio play, published in Prospect 1, 1974
The Walking Upright Show, (joint author) Studio Group 1974
Little Dogs, with music by Lydia Aylot, Gdansk, 1976
Jewels, reading by Studio Group, 1979; reading by PoW! 1985; reading by Tabard Theatre, 1986
Fair Play, co-devised and scripted, Open Cast Theatre, 1979
How to be a Lady: v.1 and v.2, co-scripted, Chwarae Teg, 1981–82
The Big Break, Action PIE, commissioned and produced 1982
The Prince and the Dragon, reading by Made in Wales, 1983
Comic Cabaret Sketches, 24 Hour Speaking Programme, 1984-5
The Hammer and the Anvil, reading by PoW! 1984; reading by Tabard, 1985
’Three Poems’, Iron 42, February 1984
Little Jack Horner, BBC Wales / Raidió Teilifís Éireann Dublin, 1985
‘The Colour of Your Money’ Iron, no.46, June 1985
Baku! Commissioned and devised for BBC Wales, 1986
A Whisper in the Wind, winner of the All-London Drama Prize, 1987
‘And Now This’ Ambit, no.113, August 1988
‘The Bird House’, BBC Wales, Morning Story, 11 April 1989
Rejoice! Commissioned by WOT Theatre, Cardiff 1989; Soho Theatre, workshop, April 1997
‘Bug Out’ Ambit: Irish Edition, no.115, February 1989
· Gdańsk: National Identity in the Polish German Borderlands (Pluto, 1989)
‘Interviews after Midnight’ Margins, no.10, April, 1990
By the late 1990s he had written numerous plays and books. He had written for BBC Radio 4, Ambit, and many of his essays had appeared in the Journal of European Studies. His first book of short stories “Rejoice” was shortlisted for the Irish Times fiction award and he won the All-London Drama Award, 1988 for his stage play “A Whisper in the Wind.
· Rejoice! And Other Stories (Jonathan Cape 1992)
‘The Trumpet of Victory’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 19 July 1993
‘Day Out’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 31 August 1994
He gained his PhD in 1994 which analysed the responses of Polish literature under and toward Communism. The thesis was partly examined by Norman Davies.
‘Andrzej, Polish Poet’, BBC Radio 4, Afternoon Story, 6 December 1995
What's Carl Tighe Net Worth 2024
| Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
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| Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
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