Kevin Barry’s most recent novel, Beatlebone, was awarded the Goldsmiths Prize. His previous novel, City of Bohane, won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He has published two story collections, Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms, and also writes for stage and screen. He lives in County Sligo.
‘If cities are sexed, as Jan Morris believes, then Cork is a male place. Personified further, I would cast him as low-sized, disputatious and stoutly built, a hard-to-knock-over type.’
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