Barry McCrea
Barry McCrea (born 15 October 1974) is an Irish writer and academic. He grew up in Dalkey, County Dublin, and was educated at Gonzaga College, and Trinity College, Dublin (1993–1997) where he studied French and Spanish literature. He received a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2004. He taught Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was appointed full professor in 2012. He holds a chair in literature at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches at its campuses in Dublin and Rome.His novel ''The First Verse'' was published by Carroll & Graf in 2005. It was awarded the 2006 Ferro-Grumley Prize for fiction, and nominated for an American Library Association award. The plot explores the concept of the Sortes Virgilianae.
''The First Verse'' was a bestseller in Spanish, published as ''Literati'' (DestinoLibro, 2006) and in German as ''Die Poeten der Nacht'' (Aufbau, 2008).
His book Languages of the Night won the René Wellek prize for best book of 2016. Provided by Wikipedia
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The first verse : a novel / by McCrea, Barry, 1974-
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Languages of the night : minor languages and the literary imagination in twentieth-century Ireland and Europe / by McCrea, Barry, 1974-
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In the company of strangers : family and narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust / by McCrea, Barry, 1974-
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