Patrick McCabe
Patrick McCabe is the author of two novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction including The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998). The Butcher Boy was also winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize and was adapted into Neil Jordan’s highly acclaimed film.
Patrick McCabe’s other novels include Carn, The Dead School, Emerald Germs of Ireland and Winterwood, which was named the Hughes & Hughes/Irish Independent Irish Novel of the Year and shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Irvine Welsh loved what he read, saying: “This is McCabe’s greatest work… A sustained achievement of often dazzling brilliance… Winterwood is that rarest thing: a novel dealing with humanity at its most twisted and bleak, but one that leaves the reader feeling curiously uplifted. And that’s because we realise that we’ve been standing in an illuminating beam whose source is, and can only be, truly great art.”
Patrick’s latest novel, The Holy City (Bloomsbury, 2009) has been hailed by The Observer as “a masterpiece”. A tale of faith, anxiety, and secrets, the novel is riddled with dark humour and a disquieting divulgence.
Patrick lives in Sligo, Ireland, with his wife and two daughters.
“Patrick McCabe is the fortunate possessor of a savage and unfettered imagination; his books dissect life’s miseries with a gleaming comedic scalpel.”
The Times
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