Billy O'Callaghan was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1974, and is the critically acclaimed author of three novels and four short story collections.
His critically acclaimed novel, 'My Coney Island Baby', published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape (and Harper in the U.S.) & translated into nine languages (including Spanish, from Salamandra, published as Los Amantes de Coney Island; and Catalan, published as Els Amants de Coney Island, published by L'Altra), was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award. The French edition, 'Les Amants de Coney Island', translated by Carine Chichereau and published by Grasset, was a finalist for the Prix de traduction 2021 du Centre Culturel Irlandais.
His fourth short story collection, 'The Boatman, and Other Stories', was published in 2020 by Jonathan Cape (UK) & Harper Perennial (US). Stories from the collection were shortlisted for the COSTA Short Story Award and the An Post Irish Book Award.
His latest novel, 'Life Sentences', was published by Jonathan Cape in January 2021, and reached no. 3 on the fiction bestsellers list in Ireland. It was published in Czech by Paseka in November 2021, and in the U.S. by David R. Godine in April 2022, with further editions sceduled in German (btb Verlag), French (Christian Bourgois) and Croatian (Petrine Knjige) translation.
His work has been translated into a dozen languages and earned him numerous honours, including Bursary Awards for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Cork County Council and, in 2013, a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for the Short Story of the Year.
His short stories have appeared in more than 100 magazines and literary journals around the world, including: Agni, the Bellevue Literary Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Fiddlehead, the Kenyon Review, the Kyoto Journal, the Los Angeles Review, London Magazine, Narrative, Ploughshares, Salamander, the Saturday Evening Post and Winter Papers.
A new novel, 'The Paper Man', will be published by Jonathan Cape, and in the U.S. by David R. Godine, in May 2023, and is also forthcoming in Czech from Paseka.
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