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Colin Barrett grew up in County Mayo, Ireland, and is a short story writer and novelist
His stories have been published in the Stinging Fly, Granta, Harper’s and the New Yorker. His first book, the short story collection Young Skins, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. One of the stories in the book, Calm with Horses, was adapted into an award-winning 2019 film of the same name, starring Barry Keoghan and Cosmo Jarvis. Barrett’s second short story collection, Homesickness, made the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year and was a Book of the Year in Oprah Daily and the Irish Times.
His debut novel Wild Houses was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024.
A darkly comic account of frustration and misadventure in a small Irish town. A slow-burn study of character and fate that’s also an edge-of-your-seat thriller
— The 2024 judges on Wild Houses