Kaleidoscope III Mary Costello has published two novels and two short story collections. The China Factory, her first collection, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the Irish Book Awards. Her first novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and was named overall Irish Book of the Year in 2014. It was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the EU Prize for Literature among others, and was translated into many languages.
Her second novel, The River Capture, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Novel of the Year and the Dalkey Novel Award. Barcelona, her latest collection of stories, was published in 2024.
A new novel, A Beautiful Loan, is forthcoming in March 2026.
Mary lives in the west of Ireland.
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