Philip O'Ceallaigh has published over 50 short stories and three collections, most recently Trouble (2021, Stinging Fly Press). John Banville has declared him as a “master” who has dared stay loyal to the shorts story form, Colm Toibin described him as “a brilliant, uncompromising and ambitious writer” and Rob Doyle named him his favourite living writer of short stories”. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages, has appeared in Granta, The Irish Times and The Los Angeles Review of Books and been broadcast on BBC radio. He is a recipient of the Rooney prize for Irish literature, among other honours.

He is also is a critic and essayist, and his translation from Romanian of Mihail Sebastian’s interwar novel For Two Thousand Years (Penguin Modern Classics) stirred international interest in that writer. He lives in Bucharest, Romania.