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Mary Costello lives in Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. It was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize and the EU Prize for Literature. Her second novel, The River Capture, was shortlisted for Irish Book Award for Novel of the Year, Dalkey Literary Festival's Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Novel of the Year. It was also selected as the Book of the Year by the Irish Independent and the Irish Times
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