Kevin Barry (writer)

Kevin Barry (born 1 December 1969) is an Irish writer. He is the author of three collections of short stories and four novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English. Beatlebone (2015) won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and his 2019 novel Night Boat to Tangier was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Barry is also an editor of Winter Papers, an arts and culture annual.