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Barry Callaghan

バリー・キャラハン

Barī Kyarahan

Aliases: Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1937-07-05 （Toronto, Ontario）
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
English
Residence History
Toronto, Ontario

Career

Occupations
author, poet, anthologist, editor
Active Years
1978-
Affiliations
Exile Quarterly
Influenced By
Morley Callaghan

Education

University of Toronto
Country: Canada

Awards

ReLit Award
2019
Work: All the Lonely People
Category: short fiction
Result: winner
Order of Canada
Category: Member (CM)
Organization: Government of Canada
Result: recipient

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

All the Lonely People

2018 short stories

A collection of short stories about lonely people.

Between Trains

2007 novel

Barrelhouse Kings

1998 novel

The Hogg Poems and Drawings

1978 poetry

Bibliography

  • The Hogg Poems and Drawings – 1978
  • As Close as We Came – 1982
  • The Black Queen Stories – 1982
  • The Way the Angel Spreads Her Wings – 1989
  • Stone Blind Love – 1989
  • Canadian Travellers in Italy – 1989 (editor)
  • Exile: The First Fifteen Years – 1992 (editor)
  • Lords of Winter and of Love – 1993
  • When Things Get Worse – 1993
  • A Kiss is Still a Kiss – 1995
  • This Ain't No Healing Town: Toronto Stories – 1996 (editor)
  • Barrelhouse Kings – 1998
  • We Wasn't Pals – 2001 (edited with Bruce Meyer)
  • Young Bloods – 2001 (editor)
  • Between Trains – 2007
  • Beside Still Waters – 2009
  • All the Lonely People – 2018

Legacy

Canadian author, poet, and anthologist. Son of Morley Callaghan. Editor-in-chief of Exile Quarterly. Won the 2019 ReLit Award for short fiction.

Archives

  • Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Libraries

Trivia

  • Son of the late Canadian novelist and short story writer Morley Callaghan.