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Sebastian Barry

Author Sebastian Barry on his writing career and latest novel Days Without End, winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2016.

Sebastian Barry discusses his distinguished writing career and latest novel, 'Days Without End', winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award in 2016, at Hay Festival of Literature, 2017.

Teenager Tom McNulty has fled brutal poverty in Ireland for America, later enlisting to fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. This dramatic and lyrical tale has won rave reviews. Barry's fine body of historical fiction has roots in the stories passed down the generations of families in Ireland.

(Photo: Irish author Sebastian Barry poses with his book Days Without End at the 2016 Costa Book Awards. Credit: Niklas Hallen/Getty Images)

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