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Colum McCann

Colum McCann
Colum McCann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels TransAtlantic, Let the Great World Spin, Zoli, Dancer, This Side of Brightness, and Songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections. He has received many honors, including the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres award from the French government, and the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace. A contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review, he teaches in the Hunter College MFA Creative Writing program.


Don’t Be a Dick: Colum McCann’s Advice to Young Writers

On the Importance of Kindness and Reading Widely
April 3, 2017  By Colum McCann
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Colum McCann Remembers Jim Harrison

He always resisted the temptation to become part of the structure
March 31, 2016  By Colum McCann
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Colum McCann, Beneath the Streets of New York

When Poverty Drives People Below
September 8, 2015  By Colum McCann
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