Colum McCann

Colum McCann is an Irish-American novelist whose ambitious, formally inventive fiction has won some of the highest prizes in literature. Born in Dublin in 1965, he moved to the United States and is a professor of Creative Writing at Hunter College in New York. He won the National Book Award. Apeirogon is a novel inspired by the true story of two fathers — one Israeli, one Palestinian — who each lost a daughter to the conflict and became friends and peace activists. The novel's structure mirrors an apeirogon, a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, weaving together history, science, art, and personal testimony. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers ambitious, deeply humane fiction that reaches across the divides of conflict — novels built on the radical idea that empathy can bridge anything.