Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry is the author of one novel and two short story collections, the most recent of which, Dark Lies the Island, included the story 'Beer Trip to Llandudno' for which he won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012, the world's premier short story prize. His first collection of stories, There Are Little Kingdoms was published by The Stinging Fly Press in 2007 and was an immediate success. His first novel, City of Bohane (2011) received largely positive reviews and won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The book is a futuristic, apocalyptic western-thriller, which is highly influenced by film, graphic novels and popular culture. Barry's writing is brilliantly vivid, his style darkly humorous, in the mould of Flann O'Brien. A unique and compelling voice, he has already been described by Irvine Welsh as ‘the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years’.