Quote by: Colum McCann

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.


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Author Bio


  • NameColum McCann
  • DescriptionIrish writer and journalist
  • BornFebruary 28, 1965
  • CountryIreland; United States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Author; Novelist
  • WorksLet The Great World Spin
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Book Award