Colum McCann is the author of six novels and three collections of stories. Apeirogon was a New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Prix Femina and Prix Medicis. His novel TransAtlantic, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013, and Let the Great World Spin
won the National Book Award and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award. His work has been published in forty languages and has received
many international honours, including a Chevalier des Arts et des
Lettres, election to the Irish arts academy and the American Academy of
Arts and Letters, the 2010 Best Foreign Novel Award in China and an
Oscar nomination. He is the co-founder of the non-profit global story
exchange organisation, Narrative 4, and he teaches at the MFA program in
Hunter College. He was born in Dublin and lives in New York.