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	Liepman Literary Agency Marc Koralnik
Original language
English

THE THINGS WE LOSE, THE THINGS WE LEAVE

Billy O'Callaghan

Billy O'Callaghan has published three short story collections, In Exile (2008) and In Too Deep (2009), and The Things We Lose, the Things We Leave Behind (2013), which won the 2013 Irish Book Awards. His fiction has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Kyoto Journal, Los Angeles Review, Narrative Magazine, Southeast Review, Southword, Versal, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Kenyon Review, London Magazine, and numerous other magazines and journals around the world.

In addition to winning the Irish Book Award, he's received bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, and has won and been short-listed for numerous other prizes, including the Francis McManus Award, the Molly Keane Award, the George A. Birmingham Award, the Faulkner/Wisdom Award, and the Sean O'Faolain Award. His work has featured on RTE Radio's Book On One, Sunday Miscellany and the Francis McManus Awards series, and he has been shortlisted four times for the PJ O'Connor Award for Drama.

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Book Published 2023-05-11 by New Island Books

Comments

"O'Callaghan writes evocatively of a way of life that has become memory rather than reality he demonstrates an affinity with people and place which is tender but never trite, and invariably rewards the reader with a surprising twist."

"O'Callaghan's ability to use words to convey emotion is astonishing. He can draw you into each story in a few sentences, the words coming up from the page and wrapping around you, transmitting that emotion, the aching from the core of the piece into the reader themselves a delight to read, with strong, immediate prose, a distinctive style that becomes a thing of beauty."

"The artistry is spellbinding. O'Callaghan has injected his characters with enough resignation to make their failures believable, but enough emotion to convince us the failures are tragedies, not merely bad luck."

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