Higgins, Aidan [Charles] (1927- ), fiction writer. Born in Celbridge, Co. Kildare, he was educated at Clongowes Wood. He lived in South Africa (1958-60), and spent extended periods in Germany and Spain. Felo de Se (1960) was a volume of stories exploring inanition. Higgin's best-known novel was Langrishe, Go Down (1966). Images of Africa (1971) is a diary of his South African sojourn. Balcony of Europe (1972) is an analysis of late 20th-cent. tedium. The autobiographical improvisations of Scenes from a Receding Past (1977) have an arresting rhythm and structure, as does Bornholm Night-Ferry (1983). Lions of the Grunewald (1993), a novel, revisits cosmopolitan settings.

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