Billy O'Callaghan is a celebrated author, born in Cork, Ireland, in 1974. He has written four novels and four short story collections, with his work translated into over a dozen languages and earning him numerous awards and accolades.
O'Callaghan's breakthrough novel, 'My Coney Island Baby,' was published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Harper in the US, and was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award. The French edition of the novel, 'Les Amants de Coney Island,' translated by Carine Chichereau and published by Grasset, was a finalist for the Prix de traduction 2021 du Centre Culturel Irlandais. His fourth short story collection, 'The Boatman, and Other Stories,' was published in 2020 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and Harper Perennial in the US. Stories from the collection were shortlisted for the COSTA Short Story Award and the An Post Irish Book Award.
O'Callaghan's novels and short story collections have earned him numerous honors, including Bursary Awards for Literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Cork County Council, a Cork City 'One City, One Book' selection, and in 2013, a Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Award for the Short Story of the Year. His short stories have appeared in over 100 magazines and literary journals around the world, including Agni, the Bellevue Literary Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Fiddlehead, the Kenyon Review, the Kyoto Journal, the Los Angeles Review, London Magazine, Narrative, Ploughshares, Salamander, the Saturday Evening Post, and Winter Papers.
O'Callaghan's latest novel, 'The Paper Man,' was published in May 2023 by Jonathan Cape in the UK and David R. Godine in the US, and is forthcoming in Czech from Paseka.