Barry, Sebastian
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His plays include
Boss Grady's Boys (1988),
The Steward of Christendom (1995),
Our Lady of Sligo (1998) and
The Pride of Parnell Street (2007). His novels include
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (1998),
Annie Dunne (2002),
A Long Long Way (2005) and
The Secret Scripture (2008). He has won, among other awards, the Irish-America Fund Literary Award, the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize, the London Critics Circle Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize.
A Long Long Way, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Dublin International Impac Prize, was the
Dublin: One City One Book choice for 2007.
The Secret Scripture won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Irish Book Awards for Best Novel and the Independent Booksellers Prize. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award, Christopher Ewart-Biggs award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in Wicklow with his wife and three children.