A melting pot of fiction from Kevin Barry
ONE of the highlights of next week’s Kinsale Arts Festival is the presence of Kevin Barry on the bill. The City of Bohane author is a natural and entertaining speaker. Literary awards keep tumbling his way.
Barry came to our attention by scooping the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2007 for his short story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms. Last year, he won the world’s richest prize for a short story, while a few weeks ago he beat off the likes of Haruki Murakami and Michel Houellebecq to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut novel.
