Kevin Powers
Kevin Powers’ first novel, The Yellow Birds, won the Guardian First Book Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. His poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His second novel, A Shout in the Ruins, was published in 2018.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Mosul and Tal Afar, Iraq.
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A Line in the Sand
FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE YELLOW BIRDS 'A cracking mystery' GUARDIAN 'Entertaining, intelligent, and effortlessly readable' SUNDAY TIMES 'Stunning' NEW YORK TIMES 'A kickass…
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A Shout in the Ruins
One of the Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2018 Following his hugely celebrated debut novel, The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers returns to the battlefield and…
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Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting
Shortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best First Collection Poetry Book Society Choice In this remarkable debut…
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The Yellow Birds
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Extraordinary . . . a…