
Kevin Power (born 19 August 1981) is an Irish writer and academic. He currently teaches in the School of English at
Trinity College Dublin
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. He writes regularly for
The Sunday Business Post
The ''Business Post'' (formerly ''The Sunday Business Post'') is a Sunday newspaper distributed nationally in Ireland and an online publication. It is focused mainly on business and financial issues in Ireland.
Founding to Irish financial crisi ...
. His novel ''
Bad Day in Blackrock
''Bad Day in Blackrock'' is a 2008 novel by Kevin Power. The plot was loosely based on the real-life death of Brian Murphy that occurred in Dublin in 2000 as a result of a violent assault outside a nightclub.Irish Independent, 5 October 2008/Sho ...
'' was published by
The Lilliput Press
The Lilliput Press is an Irish publishing house. It was founded in 1984 by Antony Farrell, in County Westmeath
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, Dublin, in 2008
and filmed in 2012 as
What Richard Did
''What Richard Did'' is a 2012 Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell. The film is loosely based on Kevin Power's '' Bad Day in Blackrock'', a 2008 novel inspired by the real-life death of Brian Murphy in 2000. ...
. In April 2009 Power received the 2008 Hennessy XO Emerging Fiction Award for his short story "The American Girl"
and was shortlisted for RTÉ's Francis MacManus short story award in 2007 for his piece entitled "Wilderness Gothic".
He is the winner of the 2009
Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
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.
Education
Power graduated from
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a collegiate university, member institution of the National University of Ireland ...
with a BA (2002), an MA (2003), and a PhD in American Literature in 2013.
Kevin Power
Academic Staff, Trinity College Dublin.
Bibliography
Bad Day in Blackrock (2010)
White City (2021)
The Written World (forthcoming, May 2022)
References
Reviews
Review in ''The Sunday Business Post''
External links
Darran McCann , Staff Profile , DCU
Kevin Power , BusinessPost.ie
Lilliput Press, the author's publisher
Trinity College Dublin Press Release
Simon and Schuster Author Profile
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Irish male short story writers
21st-century Irish short story writers
21st-century Irish novelists
Alumni of University College Dublin
1981 births
Living people
Irish male novelists
21st-century Irish male writers