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Colum McCann


Ireland (b.1965)

Colum McCann is an Irish-born writer of literary fiction, whose novels include This Side of Brightness, Dancer, and Zoli. McCann teaches creative writing at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
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2024

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Twist
 
February 2024

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American Mother
 
Novels
   Songdogs (1995)
   This Side of Brightness (1998)
   Dancer (2002)
   Zoli (2006)
   Let the Great World Spin (2009)
   TransAtlantic (2013)
   Apeirogon (2020)
   Twist (2024)
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Colum McCann recommends
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Great Expectations (2024)
Vinson Cunningham
"This is a novel of so many things - love and pride and pity and politics and sex and God and fatherhood - but, ultimately, it is about the human ambition to make sense of the troubled waters of our times. Brilliantly written, piercingly smart, quietly subversive, Great Expectations will be one of the talked-about novels of the year. I couldn't help thinking that there was a touch of Fitzgerald in Cunningham's words, borne back not just ceaselessly but also gracefully into the too-recent past."
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Hard by a Great Forest (2024)
Leo Vardiashvili
"This novel blows open the heart of the past. It's a mystery, it's a picaresque, it's a comedy, and it's an authentic song of belonging and unbelonging. Tender and raw and funny, it's a rattling good read about the loss of home and the primacy of story-telling. By turns political and philosophical, it introduces a fine new voice in contemporary fiction."
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Day (2023)
Michael Cunningham
"Day is a novel about the collisions of love within our days. Michael Cunningham crafts a glorious sentence, and at the same time he tells an achingly compelling story that speaks precisely to the times we live in. And it all flows so damn gorgeously that at times you just want to suspend the sacred day itself and hold it close, never let it, or the characters, go."

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Anthologies containing stories by Colum McCann
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The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
T C Boyle
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Tales of Two Cities (2015)
The Best and Worst of Times in Today's New York
edited by
John Freeman

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Awards
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2000) : This Side of Brightness
National Book Award for Fiction Best Book winner (2009) : Let the Great World Spin
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel winner (2011) : Let the Great World Spin
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2013) : TransAtlantic
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Book nominee (2015) : TransAtlantic
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2020) : Apeirogon


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