Colin Barrett

Colin Barrett is an Irish Canadian writer known for short fiction and novels. He began publishing with the story "Let's Go Kill Ourselves" in 2009, and his cycle Young Skins, seven stories set in the fictional town of Glanbeigh, County Mayo, won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2014. He followed it with the collection Homesickness in 2022, and his first novel, Wild Houses, was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize.