Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the author of the novels Beatlebone and City of Bohane and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the International Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award, and he was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter, and he lives in County Sligo, Ireland.