Colum McCann

Colum McCann was born in Dublin in 1965. He has lived in America, Japan and Ireland and has worked at a number of occupations to support his writing, including journalism for which he won a Young Journalist of the Year award in Dublin. In 1994 he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for Fishing the Sloe-Black River. He lives in New York with his wife and two young children.