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Sebastian Barry is an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. He is noted for his dense literary writing style and is considered one of Ireland's finest writers.

Barry's literary career began in poetry before he began writing plays and novels. While he was once considered a playwright who wrote occasional novels, in recent years his fiction writing has been more successful than his work in the theatre.

He has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novels A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture , the latter of which won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. His 2011 novel On Canaan's Side was longlisted for the Booker. In January 2017, Barry was awarded the Costa Book of the Year prize for Days Without End, hence becoming the first novelist to win the prestigious prize twice.

✵ 5. July 1955   •   Other names 塞巴斯蒂安·巴里

Works

The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture
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Famous Sebastian Barry Quotes

“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.”

Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.”

Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”

Sebastian Barry book The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.”

Sebastian Barry

Source: Days Without End: A Novel

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