Billy O'Callaghan
1974 -
Billy O’Callaghan was born in Cork and is the author of four short story collections: In Exile (2008, Mercier Press), In Too Deep (2009, Mercier Press), The Things We Lose, The Things We Leave Behind (2013, New Island Books, winner of a 2013 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award and selected as Cork’s One City, One Book for 2017), and The Boatman (2020, Jonathan Cape), as well as the novels The Dead House (2017, Brandon/O’Brien Press) and My Coney Island Baby (2019, Jonathan Cape).
His latest novel, Life Sentences, was published by Jonathan Cape in January 2021 to much acclaim.
More about him and his projects can be found on his website: billyocallaghan.ie