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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.

Awards: Dublin (2011), NBA (2009)  see all

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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Twist
 
Novels
   Songdogs (1995)
   This Side of Brightness (1998)
   Dancer (2002)
   Zoli (2006)
   Let the Great World Spin (2009)
   TransAtlantic (2013)
   Apeirogon (2020)
   Twist (2025)
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Books containing stories by Colum McCann
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Eat Joy (2019)
Stories & Comfort Food from 31 Celebrated Writers
edited by
Natalie Eve Garrett
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The Best American Short Stories 2015 (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
T C Boyle

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Awards
2011 Dublin Literary Award : Let the Great World Spin
2009 National Book Award for Fiction : Let the Great World Spin

Award nominations
2021 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (nominee) : Apeirogon
2021 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (shortlist) : Apeirogon
2021 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Apeirogon
2020 Booker Prize (longlist) : Apeirogon
2015 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : TransAtlantic
2013 Booker Prize (longlist) : TransAtlantic
2000 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : This Side of Brightness


Colum McCann recommends
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Our London Lives (2024)
Christine Dwyer Hickey
"Our London Lives is a profound love story that doesn't shirk from the fact that all love stories contain just as much darkness as they do light. Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment. A superb book by one of Ireland's finest and most honest writers."
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There are Rivers in the Sky (2024)
Elif Shafak
"Walt Whitman said that a blade of grass contains the journey work of stars. William Blake wrote that we can see the world in a grain of sand. Toni Morrison said that we never shape the world, but the world shapes us. And so Shafak finds the world in a drop of water. She discovers the epic in the tiny, the global in the local, the love in the loss, the history in the momentary. An extraordinary novel, fresh and cleansing, like the rain bouncing off the metal roof of our lives."
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Familiaris (2024)
(Sawtelle Family, book 2)
David Wroblewski
"Tender, ambitious, fierce, deeply human, and of course wonderfully canine, David Wroblewski's second novel is an American tour de force. A story spun out over generations, to be read for generations, this is a big brave book that is old-fashioned in the very best sense of the word."

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