Colum McCann

Colum McCann
May 2009 – Lyon, France
Born	Colum McCann (1965-02-28) 28 February 1965 (age 51) Dublin, Ireland
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Nationality	Irish, American
Education	Journalism
Alma mater	Dublin Institute of Technology
Genre	Literary fiction
Literary movement	Postmodern literature
Notable works	Let the Great World Spin, TransAtlantic
Notable awards	Rooney Prize Novel of the Year Award National Book Award International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Colum McCann (born 28 February 1965) is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and now lives in New York. He is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, New York with fellow novelists Peter Carey and Tea Obreht, and has visited many universities and colleges all over the world.

His work has been published in 35 languages and has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, and the Paris Review, as well in several other places. He has written for the New York Times, Esquire, Paris Review, and The Atlantic Monthly, as well as many other international publications.

McCann has written six novels, including TransAtlantic and the National Book Award-winning Let the Great World Spin. He has also written three collections of short stories, including Thirteen Ways of Looking, released in October 2015.

McCann was born in Dublin in 1965 and studied journalism in the former College of Commerce in Rathmines, now the Dublin Institute of Technology. He became a reporter for The Irish Press Group, and had his own column and byline in the Evening Press by the age of 21. McCann has said that his time in the Irish newspapers gave him an excellent platform from which to launch a career in fiction. He moved to the United States in 1986 and worked for a short period in Hyannis, Massachusetts. Between 1986 and 1988 he took a bicycle across the United States, travelling over 12,000 kilometres.