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Kevin Barry

Irish Author

Born: 1969

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Related authors: Anne Enright C. S. Lewis Frank Harris Frank McCourt Iris Murdoch Os Guinness Rebecca West Sally Rooney

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an all-rounder, writing short stories, novels, memoir, travelogue, critical biography. He lived to be almost 100, and he never stopped, and his work is unified by a great generosity of spirit. Kevin Barry

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I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.' Kevin Barry

Freelance Cork Pieces Also Wrote Around Years Irish Times

'City of Bohane' has been optioned for film, and I've finished a first draft of the script. Kevin Barry

Finished First Has-Been City Been Script Film Draft

The fundamental human truth underpinning 'Ox Mountain Death Song' is that men so very often turn into their fathers. The way that everything gets passed down. Kevin Barry

Death Truth Song Men Down Fathers Everything Way Passed Very Mountain Gets Often Human Ox Turn Fundamental

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it. Kevin Barry

I have been as influenced by music and films as by books. Kevin Barry

Music Films Books Been Influenced

I like to be happy when I'm writing. If not, then how will the reader manage? Kevin Barry

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Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books. Kevin Barry

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One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books. Kevin Barry

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I go into my workroom seven mornings a week. There will only be one or two mornings a week where it seems to be going well, but to earn those days you have to go through slow, slodgy days where your mind feels like porridge. Kevin Barry

It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security and then assault them with a couple really loud, really strange stories. Kevin Barry

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