Philip Ó Ceallaigh

Philip Ó Ceallaigh is short story writer as well as a translator. In 2006, he won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His two short story collections, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse and The Pleasant Light of Day, were short-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He lives in Bucharest. [Photograph by Johannes Kruse.]

“Gathered Fitfully from My Own Memory”: On Józef Czapski’s “Memories of Starobielsk”

A collection of essays on the Polish experience in World War II by Józef Czapski, translated by Alissa Valles....

PHILIP Ó CEALLAIGH

MEMOIR & ESSAY

Small Culture, Big Mistakes

Philip Ó Ceallaigh reviews a well-researched and compelling study of intellectual life in 1930s Romania....

PHILIP Ó CEALLAIGH

AROUND THE WORLD

POLITICS

HISTORY

“But There Has Been a Catastrophe”: On Vasily Grossman’s “Stalingrad”

Philip Ó Ceallaigh searches for truth behind the censorship of “Stalingrad,” the epic novel by Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler....