Colum McCann
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Irish writer Colum McCann was born near Dublin in 1965 and graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. degree. He has worked as a newspaper journalist in Ireland and written several short stories and bestselling novels. The short film of Everything in this Country Must was nominated for an visa mer Academy Award in 2005. McCann's work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, GQ, The Irish Times, La Repubblica, Die Zeit, Paris Match, the Guardian, and the Independent. He has won numerous awards, such as a Pushcart Prize, the Rooney Prize, the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and the 2002 Ireland Fund of Monaco Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award. In 2009 McCann was inducted into the Irish arts association Aosdana. He teaches in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program at New York's Hunter College. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Verk av Colum McCann
AMERICAN MOTHER - VERSION FRANÇAISE - MCCANN COLUM & FOLEY DIANE - Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Livre… 4 exemplar
AMERICAN MOTHER - VERSION FRANÇAISE - MCCANN COLUM & FOLEY DIANE - Prix Transfuge du Meilleur Livre étranger (2024) 3 exemplar
Cartas a um Jovem Escritor 1 exemplar
Looking for the Rozziner 1 exemplar
La squadra 1 exemplar
Als moeder Diane Foley over James Foley 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 345 exemplar
Know the Past, Find the Future: The New York Public Library at 100 (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 116 exemplar
New Dubliners: Original Stories Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's Dubliners (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 26 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1965-02-28
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Ierland (geboren)
- Födelseort
- Dublin, Ireland
- Bostadsorter
- New York, New York, USA
Japan - Utbildning
- University of Texas
- Yrken
- writer
teacher - Organisationer
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Esquire Magazine's "Best and Brightest (2003)
Hennessy Hall of Fame (2006)
Hughes and Hughes Novel of the Year (2003)
Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Hennessy Award for Irish Literature (visa alla 9)
Oscar Nomination (Best Short Film ∙ 2005)
National Book Award 2009
Deauville Literary Prize 2009 - Agent
- Sarah Chalfant (Wylie Agency)
The Lavin Agency
Michael Prevett (Gotham Group)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Listor
Five star books (4)
Favourite Books (3)
Ballet Fiction (1)
TLS 6010 (1)
Irish writers (1)
Priser
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Statistik
- Verk
- 30
- Även av
- 15
- Medlemmar
- 12,385
- Popularitet
- #1,893
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 694
- ISBN
- 386
- Språk
- 21
- Favoritmärkt
- 40
In the title story, "Fishing the Sloe-Black River," women go to a riverbank to fish for sons to replace the ones who have moved away from Ireland. One of my favorites, "A Basket Full of Wallpaper," was evocative of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, not just in name. In it, a Japanese survivor of Hiroshima moves to a small Irish village and compulsively wallpapers his cottage over and over, creating an ever-thickening insulation against the maddening world. Gilman's protagonist is lost in the wallpaper in the room to which she is confined as she descends into madness. Another favorite was "Cathal's Lake," a tale in which a new swan appears in the farmer's pond each time someone is killed in Irish factional violence until his pond is completely filled with swans.… (mer)