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CBC: Irish writer Mike McCormack's one-sentence novel wins 2018 International Dublin Literary Award | CBC Books

CBC: Irish writer Mike McCormack's one-sentence novel wins 2018 International Dublin Literary Award | CBC Books | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
The €100,000 (approx. $152,960 Cdn) prize recognizes a single work of fiction published in English.
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Mike McCormack: ‘A lot of people had faith to stick by me in the difficult years’

Mike McCormack: ‘A lot of people had faith to stick by me in the difficult years’ | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
‘A gifted generation of writers is being fostered by an equally gifted generation of young Irish editors’
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Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award with one-sentence novel | Books | The Guardian

Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin literary award with one-sentence novel | Books | The Guardian | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Solar Bones, the Irish author’s fifth book, is told by a ghost on All Souls’ Day and was turned away by major publishers as too uncommercial
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Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award

Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary Award | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Latest prize for ‘Solar Bones’ is recognition for Mayo author after years in wilderness
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Irish-published novels now eligible for Man Booker Prize

Irish-published novels now eligible for Man Booker Prize | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Controversy had arisen over exclusion of ‘Solar Bones’ by Mike McCormack
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Tenacity and talent paying off as Mike makes Booker longlist - Connacht Tribune

Tenacity and talent paying off as Mike makes Booker longlist - Connacht Tribune | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
The inclusion of Galway-based novelist and short-story writer Mike McCormack on the Booker Prize longlist for his most recent novel, Solar Bones, has been welcomed by his many fans here and further afield. As a young writer, Mike enjoyed success with first short-story collection, Getting It in the Head, which won the Rooney Prize for …
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Mike McCormack longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017

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Man Booker prize 2017: Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack on longlist

Man Booker prize 2017: Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Mike McCormack on longlist | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Pair have already won awards for their listed novels, ‘Days Without End’ and ‘Solar Bones’
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Mike McCormack: “British fiction is dominated by an intellectual conservatism”

Mike McCormack: “British fiction is dominated by an intellectual conservatism” | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
The 2016 Goldsmiths Prize winner on engineers, Solar Bones, and why Irish writers have to translate themselves.
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Writer’s Block With Mike McCormack

Writer’s Block With Mike McCormack | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Winner of Novel of the Year at the 2016 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards MIKE MCCORMACK talks getting his big break in a Galway restaurant, making homemade cider and WHAT HE’S DOING NEXT &#…
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Colin Barrett on Solar Bones: An Irish novel consisting of a single sentence is, in its own way, inevitable

Colin Barrett on Solar Bones: An Irish novel consisting of a single sentence is, in its own way, inevitable | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Mike McCormack's new novel is entirely in keeping with the heritage of audacity within the line that distinguishes the best of Irish writing
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Solar Bones Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize | Tramp Press

Solar Bones Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize | Tramp Press | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Independent Irish Publisher
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Chicago Review: ‘Solar Bones’ Is a Single, Novel-Length Sentence That Works

Chicago Review: ‘Solar Bones’ Is a Single, Novel-Length Sentence That Works | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Our universe is expanding. Solid objects are mostly empty space. By the time you reach the end of this sentence, around 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced by others.
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Watch: Mike McCormack's Dublin Literary Award Acceptance Speech

Watch: Mike McCormack's Dublin Literary Award Acceptance Speech | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Galway based author Mike McCormack was today announced as the winner of the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award.
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Mike McCormack's 'brave, challenging' book Solar Bones wins €100k Dublin Literary Award

Mike McCormack's 'brave, challenging' book Solar Bones wins €100k Dublin Literary Award | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
McCormack was nominated alongside writers like Eimear McBride, Han Kang and Elizabeth Strout.
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Advertiser.ie - Mike McCormack wins International Dublin Literary Award

Advertiser.ie - Mike McCormack wins International Dublin Literary Award | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
GALWAY BASED author Mick McCormack has won the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award for his novel hugely acclaimed novel Solar Bones, published by independent Irish publisher Tramp Press.
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New York Times-11 New Books We Recommend This Week including Mike McCormack

New York Times-11 New Books We Recommend This Week including Mike McCormack | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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40 Books for 40 Years: Mike McCormack gives us his top 10 books since 1977 | Features | Book News | Hot Press

40 Books for 40 Years: Mike McCormack gives us his top 10 books since 1977 | Features | Book News | Hot Press | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
For our 40th Anniversary, we asked four of Ireland's most prominent writers to give us their top 10 books since 1977.
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One sentence Irish novel favourite for Man Booker Prize - The Irish World

One sentence Irish novel favourite for Man Booker Prize - The Irish World | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
A novel consisting of a single sentence by Irish author Mike McCormack is favourite to win the prestigious £50,000 Man Booker Prize.
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Two Irish writers have been longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize

Two Irish writers have been longlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Mike McCormack and Sebastian Barry are two of the 13 writers who made the longlist.
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Watch - Mike McCormack: I don't remember writing Solar Bones

“Because it's riverrun and continuous and on-flowing maybe the book just flowed through me and that was it.” Mike McCormack discusses his beautiful
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Listen to New Short Story by Mike McCormcak: I, the Flock - BBC Radio 4

Listen to New Short Story by Mike McCormcak: I, the Flock - BBC Radio 4 | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
A father learns that his son has died for the eighth time. Short story by Mike McCormack.
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Book Club Podcast: Mike McCormack - Solar Bones

Stream Mike McCormack - Solar Bones by Book Club Podcast from desktop or your mobile device
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A summons to remember my dad: Sara Baume on Solar Bones

A summons to remember my dad: Sara Baume on Solar Bones | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
When the author’s father died in May, a novel narrated by a dead man lost its appeal but when the sun relit her sombre summer, the book spoke to her powerfully about fathers
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Mike McCormack’s Dangerous Visions

Mike McCormack’s Dangerous Visions | The Irish Literary Times | Scoop.it
Mike McCormack’s Dangerous Visions Archive Interview 2006Mike McCormack is Irish fiction’s best kept secret. Key his name into any search engine and you’ll get a surprisingly meagre number o
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