Kevin Barry (Author)

Kevin Barry (born 1969 in Limerick ) is an Irish writer and journalist living in Dublin .

Life

Barry writes for various newspapers. In 2007 he published his first book of short stories, There are Little Kingdoms , for which he received the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature . A second volume of short stories won the 2012 Sunday Times Short Story Award. Although Haruki Murakami , Andrew Miller and Michel Houellebecq were also on the shortlist, he received the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2013 for his first novel City of Bohane . His novel Beatlebone was nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize 2015 and actually won it.

Works (selection)

• (Ed.): Town and country: new Irish short stories . Faber and Faber, London 2013
• Dark Lies the Island . Jonathan Cape, London 2012
• City of Bohane . Jonathan Cape, London 2011, ISBN 978-0-224-09057-5
  • Dark city of Bohane . Translation Bernhard Robben . Tropen, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-50145-2
• There are Little Kingdoms . Stinging Fly Press, Dublin 2007
• Beatlebone . Canongate Books, Edinburgh 2015.
• Night Boat to Tangier . Canongate Books, Edinburgh 2019

Awards

• 2007: Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for There are Little Kingdoms
• 2012: Sunday Times Short Story Award for Dark Lies the Island
• 2012: European Union Literature Prize for City of Bohane
• 2013: International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for City of Bohane
• 2015: Goldsmiths Prize for the novel Beatlebone

Web links

• Literature by and about Kevin Barry in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Kevin Barry in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Elaine Chiew: Kevin Barry . Interview, at: the SHORT review, 2007
• Scarlett Thomas : City of Bohane by Kevin Barry - review , The Guardian , May 14, 2011
• Kevin Barry at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rosita Boland: Kevin Barry shortlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award , Irish Times , April 9, 2013
2. ↑ Richard Lea: Kevin Barry wins Impac award , The Guardian , June 7, 2013
3. ↑ Goldsmiths book prize shortlist: Lennon, Jesus and life at the edges , The Guardian October 1, 2015, accessed October 22, 2015
4. ↑ ^{a b} Beatlebone Winner of Goldsmiths Prize , The Guardian, accessed November 14, 2015