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Colin Barrett


Ireland (b.1982)

Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009 he completed his MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. His work has been published in The Stinging Fly magazine and in the anthologies, Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2010) and Town and Country (Faber and Faber, 2013).

Colin received bursaries from the Arts Council in 2011 and 2013.
 

Awards: NBA (2015)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Wild Houses (2024)
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Collections
   Young Skins (2013)
   Homesickness (2022)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The waiting room (2016)
   Calm With Horses (2020)
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Books containing stories by Colin Barrett
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The Best Short Stories 2024 (2024)
(O. Henry Prize Stories)
edited by
Amor Towles
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The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (2022)
Best Crime Stories of the Year 2

(Best Mystery Stories of the Year, book 2)
edited by
Sara Paretsky and Otto Penzler

Awards
2015 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 : Young Skins
2014 Guardian First Book Award : Young Skins

Award nominations
2024 Booker Prize (longlist) : Wild Houses


Colin Barrett recommends
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Free Therapy (2024)
Rebecca Ivory
"The stories in Free Therapy are unerring, ferociously original, cooly controlled and queasy with revelation. They live viscerally in you for days afterward."
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Lazy City (2023)
Rachel Connolly
"In the wry and compassionate Lazy City, Rachel Connolly deftly captures both the intoxicating chaos and listlessness of young adulthood, when life seems both full of possibility and impossibly elusive."
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The Sea Elephants (2023)
Shastri Akella
"Akella's debut novel is a compelling, beautifully assured and intense coming-of-age story about the wounding ferocity and terrible innocence of desire, and the resilience and hard-won wisdom by which love comes to know itself."

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