Michael Collins (Irish author)
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Michael Collins (born 4 June 1964) is an Irish novelist and international ultra-distance runner. His novel The Keepers of Truth was shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize.[1] He has also won the Kerry Ingredients Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Lucien Barriere Literary Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival.[2][3]
Collins was born in Limerick.[4] He earned an athletic scholarship to University of Notre Dame and received a master's degree from Oxford University.[4] He has a doctorate from the University of Illinois Chicago.[4]
Athletics
A former member of the Irish National Team for the 100k distance (62.2 miles),[5] Collins holds the Irish national masters record over the 100k distance.[citation needed] As captain of the Irish National Team in 2010,[6] he won a bronze medal at the World 100k Championships held in Gibraltar.[citation needed] He has also won The 100-mile Himalayan Stage Race and The Mount Everest Challenge Marathon, along with The Last Marathon in Antarctica, and The North Pole Marathon.[7]
