Tom McCarthy

Tom McCarthy is a renowned novelist and Miller Scholar whose work spans multiple languages and media formats, including cinema, theatre, and radio adaptations. He has held Visiting Professorships at prestigious institutions such as the Royal College of Art London, Columbia University New York, and Städelschule Frankfurt, reflecting his interdisciplinary engagement with literary and artistic practices.

McCarthy’s research interests and creative output focus on modern and postmodern narrative structures, intertextuality, and the intersection of literature with visual and performative arts. His notable works include the Believer Book Award-winning Remainder, the Booker Prize finalists C and Satin Island, and the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish, which interrogates the relationship between technology, violence, and organic systems.

His accolades include the 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction and the 2008 Believer Book Award. McCarthy has also curated exhibitions, such as Empty House of the Stare (2019) and the upcoming Holding Pattern (2022), which extend his thematic explorations into visual art. He resides in Berlin as a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Fellow (2019), having been born in Scotland and now a Swedish citizen.