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Kevin Barry

Ireland (b.1969)

Kevin Barry was born in Limerick and now lives in Dublin. He writes sketches and columns for the Sunday Herald in Glasgow and the Irish Examiner in Cork. He has written about travel and literature for The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and many other publications. He was awarded the 2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for this collection.

Awards: Dublin (2013), Authors' Club (2012), Rooney (2007) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction

Novels

   City of Bohane (2011)
   Beatlebone (2015)
   Night Boat to Tangier (2019)
   The Heart in Winter (2024)

Collections

   There are Little Kingdoms (2007)
   Dark Lies the Island (2012)
   That Old Country Music (2020)

Anthologies edited

Town and Country (2013)

Series contributed to

Electric Literature's Recommended Reading
Wifey Redux (2015)

Books containing stories by Kevin Barry

Collected Stories (2023)
edited by
Ben Rivers

The 32 (2021)
An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices
edited by
Paul McVeigh

Head Land (2016)
10 Years of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize
edited by
Rodge Glass

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Awards

	2013 Dublin Literary Award : City of Bohane
	2012 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award : City of Bohane
	2007 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature : There are Little Kingdoms

Award nominations

	2019 Booker Prize (longlist) : Night Boat to Tangier
	2015 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (nominee) : Beatlebone
	2015 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee) : Beatlebone
	2011 Costa Book Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : City of Bohane

Kevin Barry recommends

Wild Houses (2024)
Colin Barrett
"Vivid, controlled, very funny, and very moving - Barrett has the kind of pure writing chops that are vanishingly rare."

Kala (2023)
Colin Walsh
"Now here's a truly ambitious debut novel that purrs with narrative confidence - hugely engaging and thoroughly addictive."

Shy (2023)
Max Porter
"A troubled boy's psyche is presented in a shattered mosaic that contains within it the hope of new forms and new beginnings - this is a beautiful and haunting book, and it captures with a great artistry the resonance and rhythms of its era."

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