Tom McCarthy’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. His third novel, C, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Walter Scott Prize and the Europese Literatuurprijs and his fourth, Satin Island, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham–Campbell Literature Prize. McCarthy is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature and the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. He lives in Berlin.
