Books newsletter: Michel Déon Prize shortlist; Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize; walking tours
Books newsletter: Michel Déon Prize shortlist; Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize; walking toursIn The Irish Times tomorrow, author Sarah Crossan tells Niamh Donnelly about her pivot from teaching to writing and her latest books on forbidden love affairs and sex dolls. Richard Ford writes about the race between Trump and Biden for the US presidency: “Neither of these gibbering, teetering old grandpas should be able to beat anybody”.
Connolly is completing her MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia and has a BA degree in English and history from University College Cork. The judging panel was chaired by Kate Mosse CBE, bestselling novelist, playwright and Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction; Jess Molloy, Curtis Brown literary agent; Anna Davis, Founder and managing director of Curtis Brown Creative writing school; and award-winning authors Natasha Brown and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.
This story grows with each reading. A thing of immense beauty, spiked with shocks so subtle it takes a moment to realise what’s just happened. Like jazz itself, it circles with great delicacy around its themes – war, manhood, desire, loss, the need for belonging and the power, perhaps, of art to knit together the impossible in a way that makes sense, if only for a moment.
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