Kevin Power

Kevin Power (born 19 August 1981) is an Irish writer and academic. He currently teaches in the School of English at Dublin City University. He writes regularly for The Sunday Business Post. His novel Bad Day in Blackrock was published by The Lilliput Press, Dublin, in 2008 and filmed in 2012 as What Richard Did. In April 2009 Power received the 2008 Hennessy XO Emerging Fiction Award for his short story The American Girl and was shortlisted for RTÉs Francis MacManus short story award in 2007 for his piece entitled Wilderness Gothic. He is the winner of the 2009 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

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