I’m going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the world – and, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night’s sleep.
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| Birth: | 1950 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Brian Keenan was born into a working-class family in East Belfast in 1950. He is an Irish writer whose work includes the book An Evil Cradling, an account of the four and a half years he spent as a hostage in Beirut, Lebanon from 11 April 1986 to 24 August 1990. He left Orangefield School early and began work as a heating engineer. In the mid 1980s Keenan returned to the Magee College campus of the university for postgraduate study. Afterwards he accepted a teaching position at the American University of Beirut, where he worked for about four months. It was the 1991 winner of the Irish Times Literature Prize for Non-fiction.
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