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Kevin Barry, That Old Country Music

From the author of the wildly acclaimed "Night Boat to Tangier", one of the New York Times’ 10 Best Books of 2019, stories of rural Ireland in the classic mode: full of love, melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.


Kevin is the author of the highly acclaimed novel "City of Bohane" and two short-story collections, "Dark Lies the Island" and "There Are Little Kingdoms". He was awarded the Rooney Prize in 2007 and won the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award in 2012. For "City of Bohane", he was short-listed for the Costa First Novel Award and the Irish Book Award, and won the Author’s Club Best First Novel Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and elsewhere. He lives in County Sligo in Ireland. Kevin will be in conversation with NYU's Dr. John Waters.

Presented in collaboration with Columbia University's Society of Fellows and Heyman Center.

Feb 4, 2021 12:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)