New York-based Irish writer Colum McCann, 37, was awarded the first ever Princess Grace Memorial Literary Award on October 5, 2002 at the Hôtel de Paris, Monte Carlo. The award entitled "the Ireland Fund of Monaco Literary Award in Memory of Princess Grace" has a value of 15,000 euro and was created to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the death of Princess Grace. McCann, … [Read more...] about McCann Wins Princess Grace Award
Colum McCann
Grandpa’s Shoes
I find it hard to believe that it has been 24 years since I wrote this piece. The wound still seems so fresh in my mind. But I am reminded of the notion that the wound is the place where the light enters. And yet we are living, once again, in dark times. Still, I think that we have to tell our stories over and over again if we are going to be able to create the space for … [Read more...] about Grandpa’s Shoes
Tales from the Deep
By Laoise MacReamoinn
January/February 1997
Colum McCann, one of the hottest new Irish writers on the literary scene, talks about his career with Laoise MacReamoinn. Colum McCann, the New York-based Dublin-born writer who burst on to the American literary scene last year with his first novel, Songdogs, which the New York Times called "powerful, strong and sure," and whose first collection of short stories, Fishing the … [Read more...] about Tales from the Deep