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Colin Barrett


Born
Ireland
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Fiction


Colin Barrett was born in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009 he completed his MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin and was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. His work has been published in The Stinging Fly magazine and in the anthologies, Sharp Sticks, Driven Nails (Stinging Fly Press, 2010) and Town and Country (Faber and Faber, 2013).

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Average rating: 3.8 · 11,450 ratings · 1,631 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors
Wild Houses
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Young Skins
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Homesickness
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Anhedonia, Here I Come
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Calm With Horses
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The Ways
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The waiting room
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Whoever Is There, Come on T...
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In the Air
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De maan
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“It is Sunday. The weekend, that three-day festival of attrition, is done. Sunday is the day of purgation and redress; of tenderised brain cases and see-sawing stomachs and hollow pledges to never, ever get that twisted again.”
― Colin Barrett, Young Skins
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“it is soothing to listen to the radio static bristle of the rushing water.”
― Colin Barrett, Young Skins
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“I don’t think any other animal does rape,”
― Colin Barrett, The Dolphin
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