Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theatre and radio. He is recipient of the Believer Book Award and the inaugural Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction, an Internationaler Literaturpreis Finalist, and a two-time Booker Prize Finalist. He is also author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature, and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish. His new novel, The Rhyl Poster, is published in October 2026. Since 2022 he has held the position of Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute New Mexico. Originally from London, he now holds joint Swedish-British citizenship, and lives in Berlin.