12 Facts About Carl Tighe

Carl Tighe was a British academic, essayist, novelist, and poet.

Carl Tighe taught in Poland during the Cold War and was the first Professor of Creative Writing in the UK at the University of Derby.

Carl Tighe's father had emigrated from Ireland just before World War II and his mother was English.

Carl Tighe 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.

Carl Tighe completed an MA in 1974 and taught for a month in Poland.

Carl Tighe returned to Wales and after two years teaching night-classes at the Mid-Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education, he returned to Poland from 1980 to 1981, where he taught at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow for the British Council and helped monitor foreign radio for Solidarnosc.

Carl Tighe left Wales in 1988 to teach for the extramural department at Manchester University, where he taught English and English for Academic Purposes.

Carl Tighe began his PhD studies in 1989 and was awarded his doctorate in 1994 with a theses exploring the responses of Polish writers toward Communism.

Carl Tighe died on 8 May 2020, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, twelve days after his 70th birthday.

Carl Tighe had written for BBC Radio 4, Ambit, and many of his essays had appeared in the Journal of European Studies.

Carl Tighe had almost lost hope but then a small independent press published the novel which went on to earn nominations and awards.

Carl Tighe has had several awards and nominations for his writing.