Kevin Power (born 1981) [1] is an Irish writer and academic. His novel Bad Day in Blackrock was published by The Lilliput Press in 2008 and filmed in 2012 as What Richard Did . [2] In April 2009 Power received the 2008 Hennessy XO Emerging Fiction Award for his short story "The American Girl" [3] and was shortlisted for RTÉ's Francis MacManus short story award in 2007 for his piece entitled "Wilderness Gothic". [4] He is the winner of the 2009 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. [5]
Power graduated from University College Dublin with a BA (2002), an MA (2003), and a PhD in American Literature in 2013. [6]
He currently teaches in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. [7] He writes regularly for The Sunday Business Post . [8]
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