Des Walsh

Desmond Walsh is a veritable cultural icon in Newfoundland with six books of poetry published including the acclaimed Love and Savagery which was adapted for a motion picture by Morag Films in 2009 Talonbooks released the second edition of Love and Savagery concurrent with the films release Walsh is also a noted screenwriter playwright and musician He was the 2001 and 2003 playwrightinresidence at the Playwrights Workshop in Montreal and at Memorial Universitys Grenfell College in Corner Brook respectively He also scripted the miniseries adaptation of Bernice Morgans Random Passage and Waiting for Time which aired on the CBC in 2002 commenting that Morgans works are sacred material because they are finally our story Along with John Smith and Sam Grana he cowrote the intensely popular and critically acclaimed miniseries The Boys of St Vincent Having encountered the public education system in Placentia and St Johns he left school in grade ten famously claiming it did nothing for him His awards include a Gemini a New York Festival Award Italys Umbria Fiction Award and Best Series Cannes International TV Festival all for cowriting The Boys of St Vincent Walsh currently divides his time between New Bonaventure Trinity Bay and St Johns