# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kevin-barry-q6395795
# Generated: 2026-08-16T07:11:54.979Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kevin-barry-q6395795"
name: "Kevin Barry"
slug: "kevin-barry-q6395795"
description: "Kevin Barry is an Irish writer. He is the author of three collections of short stories and four novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English. Beatlebone (2015) won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and his 2019 novel Night Boat to Tangier was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Barry is also an editor of Winter Papers, an arts and culture annual."
tagline: "Irish writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kevin_Barry%2C_November_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1969"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             17.59940357852883
  historical:           10.35792666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كيفن باري (كاتب)"
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    title: "Кевин Бари"
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    title: "Kevin Barry"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barry_(Autor)"
    title: "Kevin Barry (Autor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Barry_(writer)"
    title: "Kevin Barry (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump