Barry McCrea

Barry McCrea (born 15 October 1974) is an Irish literary critic and writer.

Biography

McCrea grew up in Dalkey Dun Laoghaire in today's County - Rathdown south of Dublin on. He attended a private boys' school of the Jesuits in Dublin and then studied from 1993 to 1997 at Trinity College, Dublin, French and Spanish literature. He earned a BA there in 2004 and the Ph. D. in Princeton. Since 2004 McCrea teaches at Yale University Comparative Literature.

McCrea wrote, among other things, Essays on Ulysses, about exile and allegory in Cortázar and about the relationship between Bram Stoker's Dracula and the romantic comedy. Beginning of 2009 was a study entitled Family and the Modern Novel, with chapters on Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust, completed but not yet published in the McCrea the development of narrative forms in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a brings changing concept of family connection. Under the working title First Novels, Final Farewells results in a further study on "first ness in fiction". 2006 was McCrea participants at the International James Joyce Symposium in Budapest.

McCrea of fiction debut in 2005 was The First Verse, 2008 in German under the title The poets appeared at night in the Aufbau-Verlag. The novel is told in a semi - autobiographical background, a coming-of- age story in contemporary Dublin student milieu, combined with a " salute to the world of literature " in an increasingly magical, fantastic ambience.

Awards and nominations

• 2004: Sidonie - Klauss award for the dissertation
• 2005: Ferro - Grumley prize for fiction for The First Verse
• 2005: nominated for the Stonewall Book Award of the American Library Association for The First Verse
• 2005: nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for The First Verse

Works (selection)

• The First Verse. A Novel, Carroll & Graf 2005, ISBN 0786715138 dt: The poet of the night. Roman, customary. by Bettina Stoll. Building, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-351-03222-6