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CALLAGHAN’S FIRST SHORT STORY “The Muscle” was sold to CBC Radio in Windsor in 1958 while he was an undergraduate student at Assumption College. He did not seriously attempt fiction again until 1976 when Weekend Magazine published “The Muscle,” and that story was reprinted by Punch in London, England. Shortly thereafter, Callaghan began writing short stories in a column called Callaghan in Toronto Life. Six of these stories were reprinted by Punch and two were subsequently published in the The Best Short Stories from Punch. Gathering other stories that he wrote while living in Paris in 1979, he published his first collection of short fiction, The Black Queen Stories in 1982. Since then he has published several novels and collections of short stories, and for his fiction he has received several awards, including the W.O Mitchell Award (1998), the International Authors Festival Literary Award (shared with Margaret Atwood) (1986), and the Canadian Broadcasting Award for Fiction (1985).
TORONTO LIFE PROMOTION PHOTO FOR THE COLUMN, “CALLAGHAN” IN WHICH THE FIRST SEVERAL BLACK QUEEN STORIES APPEARED
SHORTLY AFTER PUBLICATION OF WHEN THINGS GET WORST, HIS DARKEST, GLOOMIEST NOVEL
PHOTOGRAPH BY DEBORAH SAMUEL, OF CALLAGHAN IN FRONT OF 69 SULLIVAN ST., IN CHINATOWN, 1982, FOR HIS NOVEL THE WAY THE ANGEL SPREADS HER WINGS
AT LE BISTINGO, AFTER BEING NAMED BY “CHATELAINE MAGAZINE “ONE OF CANADA’S TEN SEXIEST MEN” TORONTO, 1986
BARRY CALLAGHAN
man of letters
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