CARLO GÉBLER is a novelist, biographer, playwright, memoirist, critic and occasional broadcaster. His novels include The Cure, How to Murder a Man, The Dead Eight and The Innocent of Falkland Road. He has considerable experience adapting classic literature for a modern readership, while maintaining, even enhancing, the integrity of the original, including his 2019 retelling of Aesop’s Fables, illustrated by Gavin Weston, and his 2020 selection from the Decameron. He has worked as a prison and university teacher for many years and also worked with Patrick Maguire (of the Maguire Seven) on his memoir My Father’s Watch. He is married and has five children. He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.