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Biographical note
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His most recent novel Apeirogon was longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize. TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His work has been published in forty languages and has received many international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He was born in Dublin and lives in New York. colummccann.comOrwell would have been proud to journey with a writer as good as Colum McCann
Irish Sunday Independent
A mesmeric find
Observer
His stories are the work of a most vivid imagination, perpetually finding new shapes and ways of examining the world
Sunday Tribune
Rich, powerful stories that place McCann at the front ranks of contemporary Irish writers
San Francisco Chronicle
Beautiful … These well-made stories, written with fierce beauty, are sure of their effect and power
Washington Post Book World
There is magic in this McCann, and he brings to each page a special sorcery with the voices he conjures … No one can read through and not emerge feeling changed, somehow ennobled by it
Baltimore Sun