Mary Costello
BornGalway, Ireland

Mary Costello is an Irish short story writer and novelist.

Mary Costello was born in Galway. Costello was a teacher before giving it up to write full-time. Her collection of short stories, The China Factory, published in 2012, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award. Her second book and first novel, Academy Street, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize and the EU Prize for Literature in 2014. The novel went on to win the Irish Novel of the Year Award as well as the Irish Book of the Year. It has since been translated into several languages. Costello was awarded an Arts Council bursary in both 2011 and 2013. Her work has been serialised on BBC Radio 4. Mary's short story 'The Choc-Ice Woman' was published in the New Yorker Magazine on 16 October 2023. Costello lives in Dublin.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Bibliography

  • The China Factory (2012)
  • Academy Street (2014)
  • The River Capture (2019)

References

  1. ↑ "Mary Costello". Arts Council of Ireland. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "The River Capture by Mary Costello: A desperate search for ultimate meaning leads to madness - Independent.ie". Independent.ie. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  3. ↑ "Mary Costello – Canongate Books". Canongate – independent, award-winning book publisher. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Coffey, Edel (6 October 2019). "How Mary Costello was slowly brought to book". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Mary Costello - Authors". US Macmillan. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  6. ↑ Harrison, Melissa (10 October 2019). "The River Capture by Mary Costello review – audacious literary ventriloquism". the Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Keane, Grace (23 October 2019). "Reviewed: The River Capture by Mary Costello". RTE.ie. Retrieved 2 January 2020.


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