Mike McCormack

Mike McCormack is an Irish novelist and short-story writer, born in 1965, whose books include the novels Solar Bones, Notes from a Coma, Crowe's Requiem and This Plague of Souls, along with the short-story collections Getting It in the Head and Forensic Songs. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. Alongside his writing, he has worked as a writing educator, and his later novels have brought him wide recognition.