Derry writer ‘grateful and slightly dazed’ on learning of the life-changing €160,000 award
“The award will make a huge difference. I work in retail in central London and I write on my lunchbreaks and at night when I should probably be sleeping. You start to realise precisely how rare and precious time is. If the award allows me more time to continue to be a writer and, more importantly, a father, I will be thrilled but I’m grateful, regardless of what the future holds. The story of Windham and Campbell is a truly beautiful one and it’s an honour to be part of their legacy.
“It’s not something I expected in a million years and it hasn’t quite sunk in yet. The past few years have been surreal, nightmarish at times, and this feels like the part of a dream where you just might wake up. I feel there’s a duty to live up to an award like this, to honour the faith they’ve put in my work, which I hope I can do. It’s an exciting challenge.”
Anderson is working on two long-term books that travel around the globe, one on architecture and the other on faith. He also has two books near completion: a memoir about hedonism, illness and nocturnal diving, and a “dark, adventurous” historical fiction novel on the Spanish Armada and Ireland. One of the richest international literary awards, the Windham-Campbell prizes, administered by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University, were established in 2013 with a gift from the late Donald Windham in memory of his partner of 40 years, Sandy M Campbell. They recognise exceptional writers of fiction, non-fiction and drama who write in English.
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