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Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton
Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…
‘I’ve built a reputation over the years as a writer of stories, but I started out writing songs,’ novelist said
The prize-winning novelist’s lyrics, written for US jazz singer Stacey Kent, will be published with illustrations next March
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The novelist talks about about the release of her first novel in more than a decade, on the struggles of motherhood that had stopped her from writing for so long