Mike McCormack

1965–

Irish novelist and short-story writer, born in London and raised on a farm in Louisburgh, County Mayo. He studied English and philosophy at University College Galway and now directs the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Galway. His collection Getting It in the Head (1996) won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and his novels include Crowe’s Requiem, Notes from a Coma and This Plague of Souls. Solar Bones (2016), the single-sentence reminiscence of an engineer in rural Ireland, won the Goldsmiths Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. It was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.

Timeline of Mike McCormack’s life

Works

• Solar Bones (2016)

Prizes

• Solar Bones — The Booker Prize 2017: Longlist