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The Irish author explores themes of marriage, children, mortality and memory in vivid, heartbreaking tales ‘She finds truth in the tiniest details’ … Louise Kennedy. Photograph: Bloomsbury ‘She finds truth in the tiniest details’ … Louise Kennedy. Photograph: Bloomsbury JudeCook Thu 22 Apr 2021 04.00 EDT In recent times, the critical focus in new Irish fiction has been on writers who explore millennial dilemmas, such as Sally Rooney and Naoise Dolan. But alongside these novelists have emerged superbly accomplished short-story writers such as Wendy Erskine and Dan...

Shortlists for Dalkey Literary Awards 2021 revealed €30,000 prize fund for Irish writers to be awarded at Dalkey Book Festival in June about 4 hours ago Previous Image   The vitality and variety of contemporary Irish writing is reflected in two remarkably strong shortlists for this year’s Dalkey Literary Awards. The field for the €20,000 Novel of the Year award includes Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US, and Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan, winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year...

(Ryan Phillips/PA) Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Andy Charman, Rebecca Watson and Paul Mendez are among the authors who have been included on the longlist for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize. Named after the literary agent and publisher Desmond Elliott, the annual prize goes to a first novel written in English and published in the UK. Charman’s Crow Court, Watson’s Little Scratch and Mendez’s Rainbow Milk are included on the longlist. (Ryan Phillips/PA) The Manningtree Witches by AK Blakemor...

Author Naoise Dolan chooses seven of her favourite queer novels from recent year and past centuries. I was going to call this piece “the best queer love stories”, but isn’t that exclusivity, that hierarchy, the whole problem with ‘representation’? When art is presented as zero-sum, we tear everything to pieces that doesn’t speak to us personally. In reality, the more queer stories there are, the less burden there is on any book to represent all of us, which would be boring even if it were possible. If I wanted to see myself a million times I’d go to a funhouse. So I won’t pret...

Several signatories of the letter hid behind false names, including those of dead women writers including Emily Dickinson and Daphne du Maurier, “because of the threat of harassment by trans extremists and/or cancellation by the book industry”. According to the signatories of the open letter, the decision to longlist Peters for the Women’s prize “communicates powerfully that women authors are unworthy of our own prize, and that it is fine to allow male people to appropriate our honours … the moment you decided that a male author was eligible, the award ceased to be the Women’s pri...