Name Michael Collins Role Novelist | Nominations Man Booker Prize | |
Education University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Notre Dame Books The Keepers of Truth, The Resurrectionists, The emerald underground, The Secret Life of E Robert P, The meat eaters | ||
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Michael Collins (born 1964) is an Irish novelist and international ultra-distance runner. His novel The Keepers of Truth was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize. He has also won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Lucien Barriere Literary Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival. The award honours the best American Fiction published in France. Collins is a graduate of Oxford University.
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Biography
Collins grew up in Limerick.
Athletic achievements
A former member of the Irish National Team for the 100k distance (62.2 miles, Collins holds the Irish national masters record over the 100k distance. As captain of the Irish National Team in 2010 he won a bronze medal at the World 100k Championships held in Gibraltar, and led home all Irish athletes.
He has also won The 100-mile Himalayan Stage Race and also The Mount Everest Challenge Marathon, along with The Last Marathon in Antarctica, and The North Pole Marathon.