Mary
Costello

Mary Costello is from the West of Ireland. Her first short story collection, The China Factory, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and the EU Prize for Literature, among others. Her novel The River Capture was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, the Dalkey Book Prize, and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award. Her short story collection, Barcelona, was an Irish Times bestseller.