Kevin Barry is the author of the
highly acclaimed novel City of
Bohane and two short-story
collections, Dark Lies the Island and
There Are Little Kingdoms. He was
awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007
and won the Sunday Times EFG
Short Story Award in 2012. For City
of Bohane, he was short-listed for
the Costa First Novel Award and
the Irish Book Award, and won the
Author’s Club Best First Novel
Prize, the European Union Prize
for Literature, and the IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award. His short
fiction has appeared in The New
Yorker and elsewhere. He lives in
County Sligo in Ireland.
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