Anne Enright, one of 34 authors on the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction (Image: The Guardian)
A longlist of 34 authors for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction was announced this week.
Among the various (necessarily imprecise) criteria for the award are that the author has:
- an internationally recognised body of work, and
- demonstrated commitment to engaging with the public, the media and the literary sector
There are 21 men and 13 women on the list, including former Booker Prize winners John Banville, Anne Enright and Roddy Doyle and also William Trevor, who has made the shortlist for the Booker five times but has never won.
Other Irish literary veterans (if that’s not too harsh) are Sebastian Barry, Patrick McCabe, Dermot Bolger and Edna O’Brien, while among the relative newcomers on the list are Eimear McBride, whose debut novel A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing won the…
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