Kevin Power

Irish writer Kevin Power

Kevin Power (born 19 August 1981) is an Irish writer and academic. He is enrolled in the PhD programme at University College Dublin. His novel Bad Day in Blackrock was published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, in 2008.^[1] In April 2009 he received the 2008 Hennessy XO Emerging Fiction Award for his short story "The American Girl"^[2] and was shortlisted for RTÉ's Francis MacManus short story award in 2007 for his piece entitled "Wilderness Gothic".^[3] He is the winner of the 2009 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.^[4]

References

Reviews

• Review in The Irish Times
• Review in The Sunday Business Post
• Article in The Irish Times

External links

• University College Dublin: Scoil an Bhéarla, na Drámaíochta agus na Scannánaíochta UCD Current Research Students
• Lilliput Press, the author's publisher
• Trinity College Dublin Press Release
• Simon and Schuster Author Profile

Recipients of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Heno Magee (1976) Desmond Hogan (1977) Peter Sheridan (1978) Kate Cruise O'Brien (1979) Bernard Farrell (1980) Neil Jordan (1981) Medbh McGuckian/Special Prize: Seán Ó Tuama & Thomas Kinsella (1982) Dorothy Nelson (1983) Ronan Sheehan (1984) Frank McGuinness (1985) Paul Mercier (1986) Deirdre Madden (1987) Glenn Patterson (1988) Robert McLiam Wilson (1989) Mary Dorcey (1990) Anne Enright (1991) Hugo Hamilton (1992) Gerard Fanning (1993) Colum McCann (1994) Philip MacCann (1995) Mike McCormack (1996) Anne Haverty (1997) David Wheatley (1998) Mark O'Rowe (1999) Claire Keegan (2000) Keith Ridgway (2001) Caitríona O'Reilly (2002) Eugene O'Brien (2003) Claire Kilroy (2004) Nick Laird (2005) Philip Ó Ceallaigh (2006) Kevin Barry (2007) Leontia Flynn (2008) Kevin Power (2009) Leanne O'Sullivan (2010) Lucy Caldwell (2011) Nancy Harris (2012) Ciarán Collins (2013) Colin Barrett (2014)
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