Mike McCormack Biography

Mike McCormack grew up on a farm in Louisburgh County Mayo and studied English and philosophy at UCG. In 1996 he was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 1998 Getting It In the Head was voted a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A story from the collection The Terms was adapted into an award-winning short film directed by Johnny O'Reilly. In 2006 Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award. In 2010 John Waters in The Irish Times described it as the greatest Irish novel of the decade just ended. It took McCormack seven years to write the book. In May 2016 Dublin publisher Tramp Press published his novel Solar Bones; this went on to win the Goldsmiths Prize. The book was unusual in that it was written as a single sentence. Also in 2016 the book was named Novel of the Year by the Irish Book Awards. Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Mike McCormack and other top speakers and celebrities.

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