Sebastian Barry
Irish novelist and playwright whose fiction explores the forgotten victims of Irish history with lyrical intensity. A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He won the Costa Novel Award twice.
Works
- A Long Long WayIrish soldier fights in World War One and faces moral reckoning
- The Secret ScriptureA woman writes her life story as a psychiatric hospital patient in Ireland
- On Canaan's SideAn elderly woman recalls her long life across three continents and historical epochs
- Days Without EndHistorical tragedy of Irish solders and lovers during the American Civil War
- A Thousand MoonsAn Irish woman dreams of her lover's face preserved in the landscape