Tom McCarthy (novelist)

Tom McCarthy
McCarthy (left) with Fabian Tompsett, 2014
Born	1969 (age 54–55) London, England
Occupation	Novelist writer artist
Nationality	British/Swedish
Period	2001–present
Notable works	Remainder C Satin Island
Website
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Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist. In the wake of Brexit, he gained Swedish citizenship. His debut novel, Remainder, was published in 2005. McCarthy has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University in 2013. He won a Believer Book Award for Remainder in 2008.

He has also written a critical study of Tintin called Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and published an essay collection, Typewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish, in 2017. His most recent novel, The Making of Incarnation, was published in 2021.