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
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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
- ^ Rosita Boland: Kevin Barry shortlisted for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award , Irish Times , April 9, 2013
- ↑ Richard Lea: Kevin Barry wins Impac award , The Guardian , June 7, 2013
- ↑ Goldsmiths book prize shortlist: Lennon, Jesus and life at the edges , The Guardian October 1, 2015, accessed October 22, 2015
- ↑ a b Beatlebone Winner of Goldsmiths Prize , The Guardian, accessed November 14, 2015
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Barry, Kevin |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer and journalist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | limerick |