He is one of the world’s most prominent storytellers, and his fiction has been published in 35 languages. His novel Let the Great World Spin, winner of the National Book Award, was a bestseller on four continents and received major awards in eight countries. His next book, TransAtlantic, earned him comparisons to Michael Ondaatje and Toni Morrison. His novel Apeirogon won the National Jewish Book Award in 2020 and was shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Carnegie Medal. McCann’s latest work is Twist, a novel about rupture and reconciliation in the digital age.

McCann is also a co-founder of the global charity Narrative4, which brings together young people from around the world to practice empathy and harness the power of storytelling to foster understanding. McCann’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, The Paris Review, Granta, The Atlantic, GQ, Tin House, and The New York Time, among others.