Mike McCormack (born 1965) is an Irish novelist and short-story writer. He has published two collections of short stories, Getting It In the Head and Forensic Songs, and four novels: Crowe's Requiem,Notes from a Coma, Solar Bones, and This Plague of Souls. He has won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Goldsmiths Prize, and the International Dublin Literary Award. He was described as "a disgracefully neglected writer"[1][2] early in his career, but the success of some of his later works and his tenure as a writing educator have brought him wide recognition today.[3]
In 2006, McCormack's second novel, Notes from a Coma was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year Award.[8] In 2010, John Waters in The Irish Times described it as "the greatest Irish novel of the decade just ended".[1] It took McCormack seven years to write the book.[5] It is currently on the Senior Cycle reading list for Leaving Certificate English.
In May 2016, Dublin publisher Tramp Press published McCormack's third novel Solar Bones. The book was unusual in that it was written as a single sentence (albeit a long one, that spans about 270 pages).[11] The book was named Novel of the Year and An Post Irish Book of the Year by the Irish Book Awards.[12][13] The novel went on to win the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize.[14] In June 2018, the novel won the International Dublin Literary Award of €100,000, the richest literary prize in the world for a single novel published in English.[11]
McCormack's fourth novel, This Plague of Souls, was published in 2023.[15][16]
MacCormack was elected to Aosdána in 2018.[17] In 2019, he was inducted into the Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame.[8]
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