Colin Barrett | |
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| Born | 26 April 1982 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Irish Canadian |
Colin Barrett (born April 26, 1982) is an Irish Canadian writer, published since 2009. He started his career with the 2009 publication of "Let's Go Kill Ourselves" in The Stinging Fly. Barrett released one novella and six short stories with Young Skins in 2013. He released an additional eight short stories with Homesickness in 2022.
Barrett received multiple awards for Young Skins. These included the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2014. For adaptations of his short stories, two of his works were made into plays for the New Theatre, Dublin, in 2017 while Calm With Horses debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019.