We hear from Colum McCann, author of 2020 longlisted book Apeirogon.
Colum McCann
Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. His novel TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2013
His previous novel, Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and was a New York Times bestseller. His work has been published in forty languages and has received many international honours. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in Hunter College. He was born in Dublin and lives in New York.
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Colum McCann presents an epic and engrossing story of slavery, poverty, struggle and survival that keeps asking: how does the past shape the future?
How do we continue to live after the most precious thing is lost? Colum McCann’s tapestry of friendship, love, loss and belonging seeks the answer
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