Philip Ó Ceallaigh is an Irish short story writer living in
Bucharest. The New Zealand writer Charlotte Grimshaw has described him as a
"clever Irish writer". Michel Faber, in The Guardian, described his
control of tone, dialogue and narrative contour as "masterful". Ó
Ceallaigh won the 2006 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and was the first
Irish writer to be shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story
Award.
